Skylar Hopkins

Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 296.

Nonrandom foraging and resource distributions affect the relationships between host density, contact rates and parasite transmission

ECOLOGY LETTERS, 27(3).

Protected areas and One Health

PARKS, 30(1), 6–13. https://parksjournal.com/parks-30-1-may-2024/

Summer cave use by tricolored bats declined in response to white-nose syndrome despite persistence in winter hibernacula in the southeastern United States

Costley, T., Hopkins, S. R., Meng, S., Gajewski, Z., & Niemiller, M. L. (2024, June 21). JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, Vol. 6.

Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens

First Detection of Apparent Ophidiomycosis in the Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis rhombomaculata) in North Carolina, USA

Herpetological Review, 54(3), 379–380.

Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life

BioScience, 73(6), 408–421.

New IUCN Species Survival Commission Parasite Specialist Group launched in 2023

Hopkins, S., & Kwak, M. (2023, May). ORYX, Vol. 57, pp. 283–283.

Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis

The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(11), 870–879.

Environmental Persistence of the World's Most Burdensome Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 892366.

Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control

The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(8), e694–e705.

Host preferences inhibit transmission from potential superspreader host species

Continued preference for suboptimal habitat reduces bat survival with white-nose syndrome

Nature Communications, 12(1), 166.

Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(9), e0009712.

A global parasite conservation plan

Biological Conservation, 250, 108596.

How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation

Nature Sustainability, 4(4), 298–304.

Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117(45), 28515–28524.

Systematic review of modelling assumptions and empirical evidence: Does parasite transmission increase nonlinearly with host density?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(4), 476–486.

Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(46), 23182–23191.

Handling times and saturating transmission functions in a snail–worm symbiosis

Oecologia, 188(1), 277–287.

Unique parasite aDNA in moa coprolites from New Zealand suggests mass parasite extinctions followed human-induced megafauna extinctions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1411–1413.

Defensive Symbionts Mediate Host–Parasite Interactions at Multiple Scales

Trends in Parasitology, 33(1), 53–64.

Host community composition and defensive symbionts determine trematode parasite abundance in host communities

Ecosphere, 7(3).

Dispersal of a defensive symbiont depends on contact between hosts, host health, and host size

Oecologia, 179(2), 307–318.

Fitness cost of ampicillin resistance in Escherichia coli

BIOS, 85(1), 1–7.

Parasite predators exhibit a rapid numerical response to increased parasite abundance and reduce transmission to hosts

Ecology and Evolution, 3(13), 4427–4438.