Recent trends in emerging and re-emerging human infectious disease indicate that zoonotic diseases are on the rise (e.g., SARS, Swine Flu, Bird flu, Ebola, and Lyme disease), creating large economic and social costs. The increasingly dominant role that humans are playing in changing the environment is thought to be a leading cause for this increasing emergence. In this dissertation, I investigated the effects of landscape level changes on a specific host parasite system: red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) and gastrointestinal nematode parasites within Kibale National Park, Uganda landscape. I first quantified the variation in forest recovery in the region and their effects on the resident primate community. Next, I explored the link betw...
Substantial research has shown that while some parasite infections can be fatal to hosts, most infec...
This study aimed at understanding how landscape heterogeneity influences outbreaks of contagious dis...
Forest fragmentation may alter host–parasite interactions in ways that contribute to host population...
Comprendre l'émergence et la propagation des maladies infectieuses chez les animaux sauvages est dev...
The aim of this research was to investigate whether gastrointestinal parasite infections in colobus ...
1. Habitat loss and fragmentation are the principal causes of the loss of biological diversity. In a...
Abstract Forested edges, especially those that border humanized landscapes, pro-vide opportunities f...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of tropical parasites that affect ~1.5 billion people...
Environments are not homogeneous or stable, even on small spatial and temporal scales. Rather, abiot...
Non-human primates host a variety of gastrointestinal parasites that infect individuals through diff...
Primate-parasite ecology is a burgeoning field but relatively little is known about parasitism in pr...
In 2006-2007 we observed an unusual mortality event among apes in northern Republic of Congo that, a...
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic origin that has been respons...
Background: Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence. We prese...
Zoonotic diseases, which are caused by pathogens that transmit from animals into humans, are respons...
Substantial research has shown that while some parasite infections can be fatal to hosts, most infec...
This study aimed at understanding how landscape heterogeneity influences outbreaks of contagious dis...
Forest fragmentation may alter host–parasite interactions in ways that contribute to host population...
Comprendre l'émergence et la propagation des maladies infectieuses chez les animaux sauvages est dev...
The aim of this research was to investigate whether gastrointestinal parasite infections in colobus ...
1. Habitat loss and fragmentation are the principal causes of the loss of biological diversity. In a...
Abstract Forested edges, especially those that border humanized landscapes, pro-vide opportunities f...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of tropical parasites that affect ~1.5 billion people...
Environments are not homogeneous or stable, even on small spatial and temporal scales. Rather, abiot...
Non-human primates host a variety of gastrointestinal parasites that infect individuals through diff...
Primate-parasite ecology is a burgeoning field but relatively little is known about parasitism in pr...
In 2006-2007 we observed an unusual mortality event among apes in northern Republic of Congo that, a...
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic origin that has been respons...
Background: Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence. We prese...
Zoonotic diseases, which are caused by pathogens that transmit from animals into humans, are respons...
Substantial research has shown that while some parasite infections can be fatal to hosts, most infec...
This study aimed at understanding how landscape heterogeneity influences outbreaks of contagious dis...
Forest fragmentation may alter host–parasite interactions in ways that contribute to host population...