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    David Daversa, PhD

    How do wildlife movements influence disease risk?

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

    University of California, Los Angeles

    Selected papers
    Broadening the Ecology of Fear
    Broadening the Ecology of Fear

    Both predators and parasites are consumers, and both impact prey and hosts without direct killing. Are non-lethal effects of parasitism the same as those of predation?

    Alpine Newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris) Avoid Habitats Previously Used by Parasite-Exposed Conspecific
    Alpine Newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris) Avoid Habitats Previously Used by Parasite-Exposed Conspecific

    All kinds of animals avoid habitats posing risk of parasitism. Most parasites are impossible to see. So, what cues to hosts use to avoid risky habitats?

    Habitat patchiness drives spatial structure in morphological trait variation and co-variation in spo
    Habitat patchiness drives spatial structure in morphological trait variation and co-variation in spo

    Spotted salamanders, like all animals, vary substantially in length, mass and other functional morphological traits. How much does spatial structure in there habitat drive that variation?

    Daversa et al. 2018. PeerJ
    Daversa et al. 2018. PeerJ

    Seasonal migrations, body temperature fluctuations, and infection dynamics in adult amphibians

    Daversa et al. 2018. Funct. Ecol
    Daversa et al. 2018. Funct. Ecol

    Routine habitat switching alters the likelihood and persistence of infection with a pathogenic parasite

    Daversa et al. 2017. Proc.Roy.Soc. B
    Daversa et al. 2017. Proc.Roy.Soc. B

    Infections on the move: how transient phases of host movement influence disease spread

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