2024

Strauss, AT, Hobbie, SE, Reich, PB, Seabloom, EW, and ET Borer. 2024. The effect of diversity on disease reverses from dilution to amplification in a 22-year biodiversity x N x CO2 experiment. Scientific Reports 14 (1) . https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60725-z

Strauss, AT, Suh, DC, Galbraith, K, Coker, SM, Schroeder K, Brandon C, Warburton EM, Yabsley MJ, and CA Cleveland. 2024. Mysterious microsporidians: springtime outbreaks of disease in Daphnia communities in shallow pond ecosystems. Oecologia 2024 (2). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-023-05421-x

2023

Van de Wall, DB, White, LA, Everett, R, Asik, L, Borer, ET, Frenken, T, Gonzalez, AL, Paseka, R, Seabloom, EW, Strauss, AT, and A Peace. 2023. Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models. Ecology 104 (12). https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ecy.4170

Seabloom, EW, Peace, A, Asik, L, Everett, R, Frenken, T, Gonzalez, AL, Strauss, AT, Van de Waal, DB, White, LA, and ET Borer. 2023. Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory. Oikos 7. https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/oik.09880

2022

Walsman, JC, Strauss, AT, Hite, JL, Shocket, MS, and SR Hall. 2022. A paradox of parasite resistance: Disease-driven trophic cascades increase the cost of resistance, selecting for lower resistance with parasites than without them. Evolutionary Ecology 37 (1). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-022-10203-7

Walsman, J, Strauss, AT, and SR Hall. 2022. Parasite-driven cascades or hydra effects: virulence and foraging depression shape parasite-host-resource interactions. Functional Ecology 36: 1268-1278. PDF. APPENDIX.

*Guindre-Parker, S, *Tung, J, and *AT Strauss. 2022. Emerging frontiers in animal behavior and parasitism: Integration across scales. In: Ezenwa VO, Altizer S, Hall RJ, editors. Animal Behavior and Parasitism: Oxford University Press. *authors contributed equally

Borer ET, Paseka, RE, Peace, A, Asik, L, Everett, R, Frenken, T, González, AL, Strauss, AT, Van de Wall, D, LA White and EW Seabloom. 2022. Disease-mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host-pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy. Ecological Monographs 92 (2): e1510. PDF.

2021

*Ebeling, A, *Strauss, AT, Adler, P, Arnillas, C, Barrio, I, Biederman, L, Borer, E, Bugalho, M, Caldeira, M, Cadotte, M, Daleo, P, Eisenhauer, N, Eskelinen, A, Fay, P, Firn, J, Graff, P, Hagenah, N, Haider, S, Komatsu, K, McCulley, R, Mitchell, C, Moore, J, Pascual, J, Peri, P, Power, S, Prober, S, Risch, A, Roscher C, Sankaran, M, Seabloom, E, Schielzeth, H, Schutz, M, Speziale, K, Tedder, M, Virtanen, R, and DM Blumenthal. 2021. Nutrient enrichment increases herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110: 327-339. *authors contributed equally. PDF. APPENDIX.

Porath-Krause A, Strauss, AT, Henning, JA, Seabloom, EW, and ET Borer. 2021. Pitfalls and Pointers: An accessible guide to marker gene amplicon sequencing in ecological applications. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 266-277. PDF.

Wilfahrt, P, Asmus, AL, Seabloom, EW, Henning, JA, Adler, P, Arnillas, CA, Bakker, JD, Biederman, L, Brudvig, LA, Cadotte, M, Daleo, P, Eskelinen, A, Firn, J, Harpole, WS, Hautier, Y, Kirkman, KP, Komatsu, KJ, Laungani, R, MacDougall, A, McCulley, RL, Moore, JL, Morgan, JW, Mortensen, B, Hueso, RO, Ohlert, T, Power, SA, Price, J, Risch, AC, Schuetz, M, Shoemaker, L, Stevens, C, Strauss, AT, Tognetti, PM, Virtanen, R, and ET Borer. 2021. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology 102 (11): e03504. PDF. APPENDIX.

Strauss, AT, *Bowerman, L, Porath-Krause A, Seabloom, EW, and ET Borer. 2021. Mixed infection, risk projection, and misdirection: Resource supply determines infection risk for hosts exposed to multiple pathogens. Ecology and Evolution 11 (14): 9599-9609. PDF. APPENDIX.

Frenken, T, Paseka, R, González, A, Asik, L, Seabloom, EW, White, L, Borer, ET, Strauss, AT, Peace, A, D van de Waal. 2021. Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers. Oikos 130 (7): 1046-1055. PDF.

Porath-Krause, A, Campbell, R, Shoemaker, LG, Sieben A, Strauss, AT, Shaw, AK,  Seabloom, EW, and ET Borer. 2021. Pliant pathogens: Estimating viral spread when confronted with new vector, host, and environmental conditions. Ecology and Evolution 11 (4): 1877-1887. PDF. APPENDIX.

Borer, ET, Asik, L, Everett, R, Frenken, T, González, A, Paseka, R, Peace, A, Seabloom, EW, Strauss, AT, van de Waal, D , and L White. 2021. Elements of disease in a changing world: Modeling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems. Ecology Letters 24 (1): 6-19. PDF. APPENDIX.

2020

Strauss, AT, Henning, JA, Porath-Krause A, Asmus AL, Shaw, AK, Borer, ET, and EW Seabloom. 2020. Vector demography, dispersal, and the spread of disease: Experimental epidemics under elevated resource supply. Functional Ecology 34 (12): 2560-2570. PDF. APPENDIX.

Paseka, R, White, L, van de Waal, D, Strauss, AT, González, A, Everett, R, Peace, A, Seabloom, EW, Frenken, T, and ET Borer. 2020. Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 35(8): 731-743. PDF.

2019

Strauss, AT, Hite, JL, Civitello, DJ, Shocket, MS, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall. 2019. Genotypic variation in parasite avoidance behavior and other mechanistic, non-nonlinear components of transmission. Proc. R. Soc. B ​286(1915): 20192164. PDF. APPENDIX.

Strauss, AT, Shoemaker LG, Seabloom EW, and ET Borer. 2019. Cross-scale dynamics in community and disease ecology: Relative timescales shape the community ecology of pathogens. Ecology ​100 (11): e02836. PDF. APPENDIX.

2018

Bresciani, L, Lemos, LN, Wale, N, Lin, JY, Strauss, AT, Duffy, MA, and LM Rodrigues. 2018. Draft genome sequence of the Candidatus Spirobacillus cienkowskii, a pathogen of freshwater Daphnia species, reconstructed from hemolymph metagenomics reads. Microbiology Resource Announcements 7 (22): e01175-18. PDF.

Shocket, MS, Vergara, D, Sickbert, A, Walsman, J, Strauss, AT, Hite, JL, Duffy, MA, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall. 2018. Parasite rearing and infection temperatures jointly influence disease transmission and shape seasonality of epidemics. Ecology 99 (9): 1975-1987. PDF. APPENDIX.

Strauss, AT, Hite, JL, Shocket, MS, Cáceres, CE, Duffy, MA, and SR Hall. 2017. Rapid evolution rescues hosts from competition and disease and – despite a dilution effect – increases the density of infected hosts. Proc. R. Soc. B. 284. PDF. APPENDIX.

Hite, JL, Penczykowski, RM, Shocket, MS, Griebel, K, Strauss, AT, Duffy, MA, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall. 2017. Allocation, not male resistance, increases male frequency during epidemics: A case study in facultatively sexual hosts. Ecology 98: 2773-2783. PDF. APPENDIX 1. APPENDIX 2.

2016

*Strauss, AT, Shocket, MS, Civitello, DJ, Hite, JL, Penczykowski, RM, Duffy, MA, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall.  2016. Habitat, predators, and hosts regulate disease in Daphnia through direct and indirect pathways. Ecological Monographs 86: 393-411. *winner of Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, ESA Aquatic Section. PDF. APPENDIX 1.

Hite, JL, Penczykowski, RM, Shocket, MS, Strauss, AT, Orlando PA, Duffy, MA, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall. 2016. Parasites destabilize host populations by shifting stage-structured interactions. Ecology 97: 439-449. PDF. APPENDIX.

2012-2015

*Strauss, A, Civitello, DJ, Cáceres, CE, and SR Hall. 2015. Success, failure, and ambiguity of the dilution effect among competitors. Ecology Letters 18: 916-926. *winner of Outstanding Paper Award, ESA Disease Ecology Section. PDF. APPENDIX.

Strauss, A and KG Smith. 2013. Why does amphibian chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) not occur everywhere? An exploratory study in Missouri ponds. PLoS ONE. PDF. APPENDIX.

Strauss, A, White, A, and M Boots. 2012. Invading with biological weapons: The importance of disease-mediated invasions. Functional Ecology 26: 1249-1261. PDF.