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

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

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

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

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

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

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