J. R. Mihaljevic

The paper examines how late Pleistocene mammal extinctions affected pathogen richness in extant mammals, finding increased viral and bacterial richness in regions with high historical extinctions.

The paper models how temperature affects variation in host susceptibility, showing its impact on disease dynamics and population outcomes.

The paper evaluates post-restoration habitat quality for juvenile salmonids using a mechanistic growth model, finding restoration benefits vary by species, year, and season.

The paper tests small-scale transmission's role in large-scale disease dynamics using baculovirus data, finding both small-scale and large-scale mechanisms contribute to epizootics.

The paper uses mechanistic models and viral titer data to understand ranavirus growth and immune dynamics in amphibian hosts, identifying a model that explains viral titer fluctuations and the impact of initial dosage.

This study introduces a dynamic statistical model to distinguish direct biotic interactions from shared environmental effects in microbial communities, applied to HPV coexistence data showing sparse direct interactions.