2024
Sundaram, M., B. E. Akaribo, N. Gottdenker, B. Han, J. P. Schmidt, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens. 2024. Frugivory, Ficus distribution, and Ebolavirus spillover in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ecography 2024: e06950. link
Pfenning-Butterworth, A., L. B. Buckley, J. M. Drake, J. E. Farner, M. J. Farrell, A-L. M. Gehman, E. A. Mordecai, P. R. Stephens, John L. Gittleman, and T. J. Davies. 2024. Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases. Lancet Planetary Health 8: E270-E283. link
2023
Sundaram, M., A Filion, BE Akaribo, and PR Stephens. 2023. Footprint of war: integrating armed conflicts in disease ecology. Trends in Parasitology 39(4), doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.01.007. link
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Filion, A., M Sundaram, and PR Stephens. 2023. Preliminary Investigation of Schmalhausen’s law in a directly transmitted pathogen outbreak system. Viruses, 15(2), 310. link
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2022
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Sundaram, M., JP Schmidt, B Han, JM Drake, PR Stephens. 2022. Traits, phylogeny and host cell receptors predict Ebolavirus host status among African mammals. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(12), e0010993. link
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Stephens PR, M Sundaram, S Ferreira, N Gottdenker, KF Nipa, AM Schatz, JP Schmidt, JM Drake. 2022. Drivers of African Filovirus (Ebola and Marburg) outbreaks. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic diseases 22:478-490. link
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Gittleman, J.L. and Stephens, P.R. 2022. The Growing importance of environmental and ecological factors on the dynamics of disease. Pages 34-39 in: Animal Agriculture and Zoonoses (Ed. Lonnie King). Published by Council for Agriculture Science and Technology. link
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Sundaram M., E. Steiner, D. M. Gordon. 2022. Rainfall, neighbors and foraging: the dynamics of a population of harvester ant colonies 1988-2019. Ecological Monographs, e1503. link
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Dallas, T., C. Carlson, P. R. Stephens, S. J. Ryan, D. Onstad. 2022. insectDisease: programmatic access to the Ecological Database of the World’s Insect Pathogens. Ecography, doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06152 link
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Lamka, G. F., Harder, A. M., Sundaram, M., Schwartz, T., Christie, M. R., Dewoody, A., & Willoughby, J. R. 2022. Epigenetics in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.871791. link
2021
Stephens, P. R., N. Gottdenker, A. Schatz, J. P. Schmidt, J. Drake. 2021. Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks. Philosophical Transactions B 376: 20200535. link
Sundaram M., A. B. Leslie. 2021. The influence of climate and paleoclimate on global conifer phylogenetic structure depends on geographic range size. Journal of Biogeography 48:2286-2297. link
Farrell, M. J., A. W. Park, C. E. Cressler, T. Dallas, S. Huang, N. Mideo, I. Morales-Castilla, J. Davies, P. R. Stephens. 2021. The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions B 376: 20200351 link
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Paez A.M., M. Sundaram, J. R. Willoughby. 2021. Comparison of minimally invasive monitoring methods and live trapping in mammals. Genes 12(12):1949. link
Huang, S., M. Farrell, and P. R. Stephens. 2021 Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200350. link
Relyea, R., P. R. Stephens, J. L. Hammond. 2021. Phylogenetic patterns of trait and trait plasticity evolution: Insights from tadpoles. Evolution 75:2568-2588. link
2020
Pappalardo, P., I. Morales-Castilla, A. W. Park, S. Huang, J. P. Schmidt and P. R. Stephens. 2020. Comparing methods for mapping global parasite diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:182-193. link
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Teitelbaum, C.S., C. R. Amoroso, S. Huang, T. J. Davies, J. Rushmore, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, J. E. Byers, A. A. Majewska, and C. L. Nunn. 2020. A comparison of diversity estimators applied to a database of host–parasite associations. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.05143. link
2019
Stephens, P. R., Altizer, S., Ezenwa, V. O., Gittleman, J. L., Moan, E., Han, B., Huang, S., and Pappalardo, P. 2019. Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: Effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(7):1017–1028. link
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Byers, J. E., Schmidt, J. P., Pappalardo, P., Haas, S. E., and Stephens, P. R. 2019. What factors explain the geographical range of mammalian parasites? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286: 20190673. link
Dallas, T., B. Han, C. Nunn, A. Park, P. R. Stephens, J. Drake. 2019. Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks. Oikos doi.org/10.1111/oik.05602. link
2018
Dallas, T. A., S. Budischak, C. Carson, V. Ezenwa, B. Han, S. Huang, A. A. Aguirre, P. R. Stephens. 2018. Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:1437-1447. link
Park. A. W., M. J. Farrel, J. P. Schmidt, S. Huang, T. A. Dallas, P. Pappalardo, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, R. Poulin, C. L. Nunn, T. J. Davies. 2018. Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism-generalism spectrum of mammal parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1874): DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2613. link
Relyea, R.A., P. R. Stephens, L. N. Barrow, A. R. Blaustein1, P. W. Bradley, J. C. Buck, A. Chang, J. P. Collins, B. Crother, J. Earl, S. S. Gervasi, J. T. Hoverman, O. Hyman, E. M. Lemmon, T. M. Luhring, M. Michelson, C. Murray, S. Price, R. D. Semlitsch, A. Sih, A. B. Stoler, N. VandenBroek, A. Warwick, G. Wengert, J. I. Hammond. 2018. Phylogenetic patterns of trait and trait plasticity evolution: Insights from amphibian embryos. Evolution 72: 663-678. link
Older (selected)
Schmidt, J. P., P. R. Stephens, and J. M. Drake. 2017. Residence time, native range size, and genome size predict naturalization among angiosperms introduced to Australia. Ecology and Evolution 7: 10289-10300. link
Stephens, P. R., P. Pappalardo, S. Huang, J. Byers, R. Critchlow, M. J. Farrel, A. Gehman, R. Ghai, S. Haas. B. Han, J. P. Schmidt, S. Altizer, V. Ezenwa, and C. Nunn. 2017. Global mammal parasite database v. 2.0. Ecology 98: 1475. link
Stephens, P. R., S. Altizer, K. F. Smith, A. Aguirre, J. H. Brown, S. A. Budischack, J. E. Byers, R. Critchlow, J. T. Davies, J. M. Drake, V. O. Ezenwa, M. J. Farrell, J. L. Gittleman, B. A. Han, S. Huang, R. A. Hutchinson, P. Johnson, C. L. Nunn, D. Onstad, A. Park, R. Poulin, G. M. Vazquez-Prokopec, J. P. Schmidt. 2016. The macroecology of infectious disease: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. Ecology Letters 19: 1159-1171. link
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de Voss, J. M., L. N. Joppa, J. L. Gittleman, P. R. Stephens, and S. L. Pimm. 2014. Estimating the “normal background rate” of species extinction. Conservation Biology DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12380. link
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Huang, S., P. R. Stephens, and J. L. Gittleman. 2012. Traits, trees, and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4997-5003. link