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The Institute communicates its scientific and educational information in a number of ways. One major outlet is peer-reviewed publications and reports. Cary Institute staff regularly publish in the best-rated journals in their respective fields.
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, “An ecosystem service of biodiversity – the protection of human health against infectious disease”, in New Directions in Conservation Medicine, by A. Aguirre, R.S. Ostfeld, and P. Daszak, eds., 2012.
, “Effects of habitat patchiness on population dynamics: a modelling approach”, in D. R. McCullough and R. H. Barrett (eds.). Wildlife 2001: Populations, 1992, p. 851-863.
, “Habitat fragmentation and disease ecology: The case of Lyme disease”, in K. A. Vogt, J. M. Honea, D. J. Vogt, R. L. Edmonds, T. Patel-Weynand, R. Sigurdardottir, and M. G. Andreu (eds.). Forests and Society: Sustainability and Life Cycles of Forests in Human Landscapes, 2007, p. 183-187.
, “Interactions between meadow voles and white-footed mice at forest-oldfield edges: competition and net effects on tree invasion of oldfields”, in G. W. Barrett and J. D. Peles (eds.). Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals, 1999, p. 229-247.
, “Introduction”, in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner (eds.). Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems, 2008, p. 1-5.
, “Introduction to Section III”, in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner (eds.). Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems, 2008, p. 321-323.
, “Microtine social systems, adaptation, and the comparative method”, in R. H. Tamarin, R. S. Ostfeld, S. R. Pugh, and G. Bujalska (eds.), 1990, p. 35-44.
, “Public Health”, in C. Rosenzweig, W. Solecki, A. DeGaetano et al. (eds.) Responding to Climate Change in New York State: The ClimAID Integrated Assessment for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in New York State, vol. 1244, 2011, p. 397-438.
, “Pulsed resources and community responses: An exploration of factors influencing outcomes”, in J. Bissonette and I. Storch (eds.). Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, 2007, p. 30-42.
, “The shifting paradigm in ecology”, in R. L. Knight and S. F. Bates (eds.). A New Century for Natural Resources Management, 1995, p. 261-278.
, “Small-mammal herbivores in a patchy environment: individual strategies and population responses”, in M. D. Hunter, T. Ohgushi, and P. W. Price (eds.). Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions, 1992, p. 43-74.
, “Social behavior, demography, and rodent-borne pathogens”, in J. O. Wolff and P. W. Sherman (eds.). Rodent Societies, 2007, p. 478-486.
, “Toward a comprehensive conservation theory”, in S. T. A. Pickett, R. S. Ostfeld, M. Shachak, and G. E. Likens (eds.). The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity, 1997, p. 384-399.
, “Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi-infection prevalence of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks along forest–field edges”, EcoHealth, vol. 3, p. 262-268, 2006.
, “Anthropogenic disturbances enhance occurrence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Israel deserts: Patterns and mechanisms”, Ecol. Appl., vol. 13, p. 868-881, 2003.
, “Are predators good for your health? Evaluating evidence for top-down regulation of zoonotic disease reservoirs”, Front. Ecol. Environ., vol. 2, p. 13-20, 2004.
, “Biodiversity and disease risk: the case of Lyme disease”, Conserv. Biol., vol. 14, p. 722-728, 2000.
, “Biodiversity and the dilution effect in disease ecology”, Ecology, vol. 82, p. 609-619, 2001.
, “Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology”, BioScience, vol. 59, p. 945-954, 2009.
, “Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens”, Clin. Microbiol. Infect., vol. 15, p. 40-43, 2009.
, “Borrelia burgdorferi has minimal impact on the Lyme disease reservoir host Peromyscus leucopus”, Vector-Borne Zoonot., vol. 11, p. 117-124, 2011.
, “Bowhunter observations versus spotlighting as an index to deer abundance”, Northeast. Wildl., vol. 56, p. 39-48, 2001.
, “A call to ecologists: Measuring, analyzing, and managing ecosystem services”, Front. Ecol. Environ., vol. 3, p. 540-548, 2005.
, “Causes and consequences of tick (Ixodes scapularis) burdens on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)”, J. Mammal, vol. 77, p. 266-273, 1996.
, “Chain reactions linking acorns to gypsy moth outbreaks and Lyme disease risk”, Science, vol. 279, p. 1023-1026, 1998.