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Kevin Lafferty

   Research Ecologist

Kevin Lafferty
Channel Islands Field Station
USGS, Western Ecological Research Center c/o Marine Science Institute
UC Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-8778
Fax: (805) 893-8062
Email: klafferty@usgs.gov 		Marine Ecologist Kevin Lafferty near Point Conception conducting field work.
Bio
My main interest is in how parasites affect ecosystems and, in turn, how ecosystems affect parasites. I am also involved in research on conservation of marine resources investigating strategies for protecting endangered shorebirds, fish and abalone. I have also assessed the effects of marine reserves.

I received my Ph. D. in Ecological Parasitology in 1991 at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and took a post doc with the National Marine Sanctuary and a research position at UCLA. I am presently Marine Ecologist for the USGS at the Channel Islands Field Station. As a UCSB adjunct faculty member, the department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology generously provides for my office and laboratory space in the Marine Lab. I advise graduate students in Marine Ecology, but have no formal teaching assignments.
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Conservation biology
  • Invasive species ecology
  • Nearshore marine ecology
  • Parasite ecology
  • Wetland ecology

EDUCATION
  • Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1991
  • M.A., Zoology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1988
  • B.A., Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1985

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES AND SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEES
  • Amercian Society of Parasitologists
  • American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
  • California Botanical Society
  • Ecological Society of America
  • Natural Areas Association
  • Western Society of Naturalists

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Marine Ecologist, USGS, Western Ecological Science Center, Jul 1998-Present
  • Assistant Adj. Prof., UCSB, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Jul 1998-Present
  • Assist. Research Biologist, UCSB Marine Science Institute, Jun 1996-Jul 1998
  • Assist. Research Biologist, UCLA, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Jun 1994-Jul 1998
  • Assist. Research Biologist, UCSB, Marine Science Institute, Jan 1993-May 1994
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, National Marine Sanctuaries Program, Jan 1992-Dec 1992
All Products
Journal_Article
2013 Sánchez, MI, PN Nikolov, DD Georgieva, BB Georgiev, GP Vasileva, P Pankov, M Paracuellos, KD Lafferty, AJ Green. 2013. High prevalence of cestodes in Artemia spp. throughout the annual cycle: relationship with abundance of avian final hosts. Parasitology Research 112(5): 1913-1923. doi: 10.1007/s00436-013-3347-x [Journal_Article]
2013 Amundsen, P, KD Lafferty, R Knudsen, R Primicerio, R Kristoffersen, A Klemetsen, AM Kuris. 2013. New parasites and predators follow the introduction of two fish species to a subarctic lake: implications for food-web structure and functioning. Oecologia 171(4): 993-1002. doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2461-2 [Journal_Article]
2013 Lafferty, KD, DA Rodriguez, A Chapman. 2013. Temporal and spatial variation in bird and human use of beaches in southern California. SpringerPlus 2: 38. doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-38 [Journal_Article]
2013 Strona, G, KD Lafferty. 2013. Predicting what helminth parasites a fish species should have using Parasite Co-occurrence Modeler (PaCo). Journal of Parasitology 99(1): 6-10. doi: 10.1645/GE-3147.1 [Journal_Article]
2013 Lafferty, KD, JC Shaw. 2013. Comparing mechanisms of host manipulation across host and parasite taxa. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 56-66. doi: 10.1242/jeb.073668 [Journal_Article]
2013 Lafferty, KD. 2013. Parasites in marine food webs. Bulletin of Marine Science 89(1): 123-134. doi: 10.5343/bms.2011.1124 [Journal_Article]
2013 Ben-Horin, T, HS Lenihan, KD Lafferty. 2013.  Variable intertidal temperature explains why disease endangers black abalone. Ecology 94(1): 161-168. doi: 10.1890/11-2257.1 [Journal_Article]
2012 Vidal-Martinez, VM, ML Aguirre-Macedo, JP McLaughlin, RF Hechinger, AG Jaramillo, JC Shaw, AK James, AM Kuris, KD Lafferty. 2012. Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific. Journal of Helminthology 86(4): 493-509. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X11000526 [Journal_Article]
2012 Wood, CL, KD Lafferty. 2012. Biodiversity and disease: a synthesis of ecological perspectives on Lyme disease transmission. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28(4): 239-247. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.011 [Journal_Article]
2012 Lafferty, KD. 2012. Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367(1604): 2814-2827. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0110 [Journal_Article]
2012 Mordecai, EA, KP Paaijmans, LR Johnson, C Balzer, T Ben-Horin, E Moor, A McNally, S Pawar, SJ Ryan, TC Smith, KD Lafferty. 2012. Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12015. [Journal_Article]
2012 Behrens, MD, KD Lafferty. 2012. Geographic variation in the diet of opaleye (Girella nigricans) with respect to temperature and habitat. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45901. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045901 [Journal_Article]
2012 Vittecoq, M, KD Lafferty, E Elguero, J Brodeur, M Gauthier-Clerc, D Missé, B Roche, F Thomas. 2012. Cat ownership is neither a strong predictor of Toxoplamsa gondii infection nor a risk factor for brain cancer. Biology Letters. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0625 [Journal_Article]
2012 Lorda, J, KD Lafferty. 2012. Shading decreases the abundance of the herbivorous California horn snail, Cerithidea californica. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 432-433: 148-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.07.009 [Journal_Article]
2012 Soldánová, M, AM Kuris, Scholz, T, KD Lafferty. 2012. The role of spatial and temporal heterogeneity and competition in structuring trematode communities in the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis (L.). Journal of Parasitology 98(3): 460-471. doi: 10.1645/GE-2964.1 [Journal_Article]
2012 Sato, T, T Egusa, K Fukushima, T Oda, N Ohte, N Tokuchi, K Watanabe, M Kanaiwa, I Murakami, KD Lafferty. 2012. Nematomorph parasites indirectly alter the food web and ecosystem function of streams through behavioural manipulation of their cricket hosts. Ecology Letters 15: 786-793 doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01798.x [Journal_Article]
2012 Strona, G, KD Lafferty. 2012. How to catch a parasite: parasite niche modeler (PaNic) meets FishBase. Ecography 35: 481-486. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07439.x [Journal_Article]
2012 Thomas F, Lafferty KD, Brodeur J, Elguero E, Gauthier-Clerc M and Misse D.  2012.  Incidence of adult brain cancers is higher in countries where the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is common. Biology Letters 8: 101-103. [Journal_Article]
2012 Kéfi, S, EL Berlow, EA Wieters, SA Navarrete, OL Petchey, SA Wood, A Boit, LN Joppa, KD Lafferty, RJ Williams, ND Martinez, BA Menge, CA Blanchette, AC Iles, U Brose. 2012. More than a meal... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x [Journal_Article]
2012 Vittecoq, M, E Elguero, KD Lafferty, B Roche, J Brodeur, M Gauthier-Clerc, D Missé, F Thomas. 2012. Brain cancer mortality rates increase with Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in France. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 12: 496-498. [Journal_Article]
2012 Sonnenholzner, J. I., K. D. Lafferty, and L. B. Ladah. 2011. Food webs and fishing affect parasitism of the sea urchin Eucidaris galapagensis in the Galápagos. Ecology: 2276-2284. [Journal_Article]
2011 Sato, T., Watanabe, K., Tokuchi, N., Kamauchi, H., Harada, Y. and Lafferty, K. D. 2011. A nematomorph parasite explains variation in terrestrial subsidies to trout streams in Japan. Oikos 120: 1595-1599. [Journal_Article]
2011 Aguirre-Macedo ML, Vidal-Martínez VM and Lafferty KD. 2011. Trematode communities in snails can indicate impact and recovery from hurricanes in a tropical coastal lagoon. International Journal for Parasitology 41:1403-1408 [Journal_Article]
2011 Johnson, M. B., K.D. Lafferty, C. Van Oosterhout, and J. Cable.  2011. Parasite transmission in social interacting hosts: monogenean epidemics in guppies. PLoS ONE. 6(8): e22634. [Journal_Article]
2011 Sheehan, K. L., K. D. Lafferty, J. O'Brien, and J. Cebrian. 2011. Parasite distribution, prevalence, and assemblages of the grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, in Southwestern Alabama, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 78:245-256. [Journal_Article]
2011 Hechinger, R. F., K. D. Lafferty, A. P. Dobson, J. H. Brown, and A. M. Kuris. 2011. A common scaling rule for abundance, energetics, and production of parasitic and free-living species. Science 333:445-448. [Journal_Article]
2011 Rudolf, V. and Lafferty, K. D. (2011). Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks. Ecology Letters, 14, 75-79. [Journal_Article]
2011 Sato, T., K. Watanabe, M. Kanaiwa, Y. Niizuma, Y. Harada, and K.D. Lafferty. 2011. Nematomorph parasites drive energy flow through a riparian ecosystem. Ecology  91(1): 201-207. [Journal_Article]
2011 Ryan F. Hechinger, Kevin D. Lafferty, John P. McLaughlin, Brian L. Fredensborg, Todd C. Huspeni, Julio Lorda, Parwant K. Sandhu, Jenny C. Shaw, Mark E. Torchin, Kathleen L. Whitney, and Armand M. Kuris. 2011. Food webs including parasites, biomass, body sizes, and life stages for three California/Baja California estuaries. Ecology 92:791. [Journal_Article]
2010 Lafferty, K. D. 2010. Interacting parasites. Science 330:187-188. [Journal_Article]
2010 Warren, C., M. Pascual, K. D. Lafferty, and A. M. Kuris. In Press. Parasitic networks in food webs: clustering, nestedness, and the inverted niche model. Theoretical Ecology. DOI: DOI 10.1007/s12080-009-0069-x  [Journal_Article]
2010 Lafferty, K. D. and J. A. Dunne. 2010. Stochastic ecological network occupancy (SENO) models: a new tool for modeling ecological networks across spatial scales. Theoretical Ecology 3:123-135. [Journal_Article]
2010 Wood, C. L., K. D. Lafferty, and F. Micheli. 2010. Fishing out marine parasites?  Impacts of fishing on rates of parasitism in the ocean. Ecology Letters 13:761-775. [Journal_Article]
2010 Shaw, J. C., K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Hechinger, and A. M. Kuris. 2010. Ecology of the brain trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis and its host, the California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis). Journal of Parasitology 96:482-490. [Journal_Article]
2010 Lafferty, K. D., S. A. Hathaway, A. S. Wegmann, F. S. Shipley, A. R. Backlin, J. Helm, and R. N. Fisher. 2010. Stomach nematodes (Mastophorus muris) in rats (Rattus rattus) are associated with coconut (Cocos nucifera) habitat at Palmyra Atoll. Journal of Parasitology 96: 16-20. [Journal_Article]
2010 Lafferty, K. D. 2010. The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases: reply. Ecology 91:928-929 [Journal_Article]
2010 Johnson, P. T. J., A. Dobson, K. D. Lafferty, D. J. Marcogliese, J. Memmott, S. A. Orlofske, R. Poulin, and D. W. Thieltges. 2010. When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:362-371. [Journal_Article]
2010 Babcock, R. C., N. T. Shears, A. C. Alcala, N. S. Barrett, G. J. Edgar, K. D. Lafferty, T. R. McClanahan, and G. R. Russ. 2010. Decadal trends in marine reserves reveal differential rates of change in direct and indirect effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107:18256-18261. [Journal_Article]
2009 Blakeslee, A. M. H., C. L. Keogh, J. E. Byers, A. M. Kuris, K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 2009. Differential escape from parasites by two competing introduced crabs. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 393:83-96. [Journal_Article]
2009 Lafferty, K. D. 2009. Acceptance of the 2009 Henry Baldwin Ward Medal: the accidental parasitologist. Journal of Parasitology 95:1267-1271. [Journal_Article]
2009 Dobson, A. P., S. Allesina, K. D. Lafferty, and M. Pascual. 2009. The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 364:1803-1806. [Journal_Article]
2009 Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2009. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities: reanalysis using corrected data. Marine Ecology Progress Series 375:209-218. [Journal_Article]
2009 Shaw, J. C., W. J. Korzan, R. E. Carpenter, A. M. Kuris, K. D. Lafferty, C. H. Summers, and O. Overli. 2009. Parasite manipulation of brain monoamines in California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) by the trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 276:1137-1146. [Journal_Article]
2009 Amundsen, P.A., K.D. Lafferty, R. Knudsen, R. Primicerio, A. Klemetsen, and A.M. Kuris.2009. Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:563-572 [Journal_Article]
2009 Lafferty, K.D. 2009. The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology 90:888-900 [Journal_Article]
2009 Lafferty, K.D. 2009. Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change and infectious diseases.Ecology 90:932-933. [Journal_Article]
2009 Kaplan, A. T., S. Rebhal, K. D. Lafferty, and A. Kuris. 2009. Small estuarine fishes feed on large trematode cercariae: lab and field observations. Journal of Parasitology 95:477-480 [Journal_Article]
2009 Lafferty, K. D., and A. M. Kuris. 2009. Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snail. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 364: 1659-1663. [Journal_Article]
2009 Dobson, A. P., S. Allesina, K. D. Lafferty, and M. Pascual. 2009. Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation. Pages 163. London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. [Journal_Article]
2009 Dobson, A. P., S. Allesina, K. D. Lafferty, and M. Pascual. 2009. Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation. Pages 163. London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. [Journal_Article]
2009 Lafferty, K.D. and A.M. Kuris. 2009. Parasitic castration: the evolution and ecology of body snatchers. Trends in Parasitology 25(12):564-572. [Journal_Article]
2008 Lafferty, K. D., S. Allesina, M. Arim, C. J. Briggs, G. DeLeo, A. P. Dobson, J. A. Dunne, P. T. Johnson, A. M. Kuris, D. J. Marcogliese, N. D. Martinez, J. Memmott, P. A. Marquet, J. P. McLaughlin, E. A. Mordecai, M. Pascual, R. Poulin, and D. W. Thieltges. 2008. Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecology Letters 11:533-546. [Journal_Article]
2008 Kuris, A. M., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. Whitney, L. Aguirre-Macedo, C. Boch, A. Dobson, E. J. Dunham, B. L. Fredensborg, T. C. Huspeni, J. Lorda, L. Mababa, F. Mancini, A. Mora, M. Pickering, N. Talhouk, M. E. Torchin, and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature 454:515-518. [Journal_Article]
2008 Dobson, A. P., K. D. Lafferty, A. M. Kuris, R. F. Hechinger, and W. Jetz. 2008. Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11482-11489. [Journal_Article]
2008 Hechinger, R. F., K. D. Lafferty, and A. M. Kuris. 2008. Trematodes indicate animals biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Parasitology 94:966-968. [Journal_Article]
2008 Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D. & Kuris, A. M. (2008). Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 275, 2707-2714. [Journal_Article]
2008 Lafferty, K. D., J. C. Shaw, and A. M. Kuris. 2008. Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished Palmyra Atoll compared to fished Kiritimati Island. EcoHealth 5:338-345. [Journal_Article]
2008 Lafferty, K. D. 2008. Ecosystem consequences of fish parasites. Journal of Fish Biology 73:2083-2093 [Journal_Article]
2007 Kuris, A. M., J. H. R. Goddard, M. E. Torchin, N. Murphy, R. Gurney, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. An experimental evaluation of host specificity: The role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs. International Journal for Parasitology 37:539. [Journal_Article]
2007 Behrens, M. D., and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish performance: implications for the latitudinal diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:867-873. [Journal_Article]
2007 Whitney, K. L., R. F. Hechinger, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications 17:1694-1702. [Journal_Article]
2007 Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:77-85. [Journal_Article]
2006 Lafferty, K. D., Goodman, D. & Sandoval, C. P. 2006. Restoration of breeding by snowy plovers following protection from disturbance. Biodiversity and Conservation 15, 2217-2230. [Journal_Article]
2006 Smith, K. E., Sax, D. E. & Lafferty, K. D. 2006 Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment. Conservation Biology 20, 1349-1357. [Journal_Article]
2006 Hudson, P.J., Dobson A.P. & Lafferty K.D. (2006). Parasites and ecological systems: is a healthy system one with many parasites? Trends in Ecology Evolution, 21, 381-385. [Journal_Article]
2005 Lafferty, K. D. (2005) Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity? Behavioral Processes 68: 279-282. [Journal_Article]
2005 Lafferty, K. D. and E. J. Dunham, 2005. Trematodes in snails near raccoon latrines suggest a final host role for this mammal in California Salt Marshes, Journal of Parasitology 91:474-476 [Journal_Article]
2005 Hechinger, R.F., K. D. Lafferty, 2005. Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 272, 1059-1066. [Journal_Article]
2005 Torchin, M. E., Huspeni, T. C., Hechinger, R. F. & Lafferty, K. D. 2005. The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa. Biological Invasions 7, 607-614. [Journal_Article]
2005 Shaw, J., Aguirre-Macedo, L. & Lafferty, K. D. 2005. An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 515-521. [Journal_Article]
2005 Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Lorda, J. & Soler, L. 2005. Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 697-699. [Journal_Article]
2005 Gerber, L. R., K. D. Lafferty, H. I. McCallum, J. L. Sabo, and A. P. Dobson. 2005. Exposing extinction risk analysis to pathogens: is disease just another form of density dependence? Ecological Applications 15:1402-1414. [Journal_Article]
2005 Goddard, J. H. R., M. E. Torchin, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California. Biological Invasions 7:895-912. [Journal_Article]
2004 Lafferty, K. D., Behrens, M. D., Davis, G. E., Haaker, P. L., Kushner, D.,Richards, D. V., Taniguchi, I. K. and Tegner, M. J. (2004) Habitat of endangered white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, Biological Conservation, 116, 191-194. [Journal_Article]
2004 Huspeni TC, Lafferty KD. 2004. Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a salt-marsh restoration project. Ecological Applications 14: 795-804 [Journal_Article]
2004 Ward, J. R. and K. D. Lafferty (2004) The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing? Public Library of Science Biology 2: e120. [Journal_Article]
2004 Lafferty, K. D. 2004. Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins. Ecological Applications. 14: 1566-1573. [Journal_Article]
2004 Lafferty, K. D., J. Porter and S. E. Ford (2004) Are diseases increasing in the ocean? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 31-54. [Journal_Article]
2004 Harvell, D., R. Aronson, N. Baron, J. Connell, A. Dobson, S. Ellner, L. Gerber, K. Kim, A. Kuris, H. McCallum, K. Lafferty, B. McKay, J. Porter, M. Pascual, G. Smith, K. Sutherland and J. Ward (2004) The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 375-382. [Journal_Article]
2004 McCallum, H. I., A. M. Kuris, C. D. Harvell, K. D. Lafferty, G. W. Smith, and J. Porter. 2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:585-591. [Journal_Article]
2004 Behrens, M. D. and K. D. Lafferty. 2004. Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern California rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 279: 129-139. [Journal_Article]
2003 Torchin, M.E., K.D. Lafferty, A.P. Dobson, V.J. McKenzie and A.M. Kuris 2003. Introduced species and their missing parasites. Nature 421:628-630. [Journal_Article]
2003 Roberts, C. M., S. J. Andelman, G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. P. Possingham, M. Ruckelshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S199-S215. [Journal_Article]
2003 Roberts, C., G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, M. H. Ruckleshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S215-S228. [Journal_Article]
2003 Airame, S. J. E. Dugan, K. D. Lafferty, H. M. Leslie, D. A. McArdle and R. R. Warner. 2003. Marine reserve design for conservation and fisheries management: a case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecological Applications 13:S170-S184. [Journal_Article]
2003 Roberts, C., G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, M. H. Ruckleshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S215-S228. [Journal_Article]
2003 Lafferty, K. D., and R. D. Holt. 2003. How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? Ecology Letters 6:654-664. [Journal_Article]
2003 Lafferty, K.D. 2003. Is disease increasing or decreasing, and does it impact or maintain biodiversity? Journal of Parasitology 89:S101-S105 [Journal_Article]
2003 Choisy, M, Brown, S, Lafferty, KD & Thomas, F (2003) Evolution of trophic transmission in parasites: why add intermediate hosts? American Naturalist 162:172-181 [Journal_Article]
2003 Packer, C, R. D. Holt, P. J. Hudson, K. D. Lafferty, and A. P. Dobson. 2003. Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease. Ecology Letters 6: 797-802. [Journal_Article]
2002 Thomas, F., Fauchier, J. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Conflict of interest between a nematode and a trematode in an amphipod host: test of the "sabotage" hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 296-301. [Journal_Article]
2002 Lafferty, K. D. and L. Gerber. 2002. Good medicine for conservation biology: The intersection of epidemiology and conservation theory. Conservation Biology 16:593-604. [Journal_Article]
2002 Cochran , G. R. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Use of acoustic classification of sidescan sonar data for mapping benthic habitat in the northern Channel Islands, California. Continental Shelf Research 22:683-690. [Journal_Article]
2002 Lafferty, K.D. and A.M. Kuris 2002. Trophic strategies, animal diversity and body size. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:507-513. [Journal_Article]
2002 Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2002. Parasites and Marine Invasions. Parasitology 124:S137-S151. [Journal_Article]
2002 Kuris, A.M., M. E. Torchin and K.D. Lafferty. 2002. Fecampia erythrocephala rediscovered: prevalence and distribution of a parasitoid of the European shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK 82:955-960. [Journal_Article]
2001 Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Disturbance to wintering western snowy plovers. Biological Conservation 101:315-325. [Journal_Article]
2001 Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Birds at a Southern California beach: seasonality, habitat use and disturbance by human activity. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 1949-1962. [Journal_Article]
2001 Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2001. Release from parasites as natural enemies: increased performance of a globally introduced marine crab. Biological Invasions 3:333-345. [Journal_Article]
1999 Lafferty, K. D., Swift, C. C. and Ambrose, R. F. 1999. Extirpation and recolonization in a metapopulation of an endangered fish, the tidewater goby. Conservation Biology 13:1-8. [Journal_Article]
1999 Lafferty, K. D., C. C. Swift and R. F. Ambrose 1999. Post flood persistence and recolonization of endangered tidewater goby populations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19:618-622. [Journal_Article]
1999 Lafferty, K. D. 1999. The evolution of trophic transmission. Parasitology Today 15:111-115. [Journal_Article]
1999 Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1999. How environmental stress affects the impacts of parasites. Limnology and Oceanography 44:564-590. [Journal_Article]
1997 Bush, A. O., K. D. Lafferty, J. M. Font and A. W. Shostak 1997. Parasitology meets ecology: definitions, clarifications, examples and Margolis et al. revisited. Journal of Parasitology. [Journal_Article]
1997 Lafferty, K. D. and Page, C. J. 1997. Predation on the endangered tidewater goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, by the introduced African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, with notes on the frog's parasites. Copeia 1997:589-592. [Journal_Article]
1997 Lafferty, K. D. 1997. Environmental parasitology: what can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment? Parasitology Today 13:251-255. [Journal_Article]
1996 Altstatt, J. A., R. F. Ambrose, J. M. Engle, P. L. Haaker, K. D. Lafferty and P. T. Raimondi. 1996. Recent declines of black abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the mainland coast of central California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 142:185-192. [Journal_Article]
1996 Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1996. Biological Control of Marine Pests. Ecology 77: 1989-2000. [Journal_Article]
1996 Lafferty, K. D., R. O. Swenson, and C. C. Swift. 1996. Threatened fishes of the world: Eucyclogobius newberryi Girard, 1857 (Gobiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 46:254. [Journal_Article]
1996 Lafferty, K. D. and A. K. Morris. 1996. Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts. Ecology 77:1390-1397. [Journal_Article]
1996 Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 1996. Infestation of an introduced host, the European green crab, Carcinus maenas by a native symbiotic nemertean egg predator, Carcinonemertes epialti. Journal of Parasitology 82: 449-453. [Journal_Article]
1996 Ferren, W. J., P. L. Fiedler, R. A. Leidy, K. D. Lafferty and L. A. K. Mertes. 1996. Wetlands of California, part III: Key to and catalogue of wetlands of the Central and Southern California coast and coastal watersheds. Madroño 43 (1) S:183-234. [Journal_Article]
1996 Ferren, W. J., P. L. Fiedler, R. A. Leidy, K. D. Lafferty and L. A. K. Mertes. 1996. Wetlands of California, part II: A method for their classification and description. Madroño 43 (1) S:125-182. [Journal_Article]
1994 Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1994. Community structure: larval trematodes in snail hosts. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25:189-217. [Journal_Article]
1994 Lafferty, K. D., D. T. Sammond and A. M. Kuris. 1994. Analysis of larval trematode community structure: separating the roles of competition and spatial heterogeneity. Ecology 75: 2275-2285. [Journal_Article]
1993 Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1993. Mass mortality of abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the California Channel Islands: tests of epidemiological hypotheses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96:239-248. [Journal_Article]
1993 Lafferty, K. D. 1993. Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of Cerithidea californica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96:229-237. [Journal_Article]
1993 Lafferty, K. D. 1993. The marine snail, Cerithidea californica, matures at smaller sizes where parasitism is high. Oikos 68:3-11. [Journal_Article]
1992 Kuris, A. M. & K. D. Lafferty. 1992. Modelling crustacean fisheries: effects of parasites on management strategies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:327-336. [Journal_Article]
1992 Lafferty, K. D. 1992. Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites. American Naturalist 140 (5): 854-867. [Journal_Article]
Popular_PublicationTechnical_Report
2003 Warburton, M. and K. Lafferty. 2003. Camp Pendleton Tidewater Goby Monitoring Project Interim Report. Prepared for USMS Camp Pendleton. 24 pp [Technical_Report]
2001 Kevin D. Lafferty. 2001. Restoration of the White Abalone in Southern California: Population Assessment, Brood Stock Collection, and Development of Husbandry Technology. Final Report. S-K (NOAA) NA96FD0208. [Technical_Report]
1998 Lafferty, K. D. 1998. Efforts to monitor and protect tidewater gobies at Gaviota Creek during a stream bank stabilization project. Final Report to the California Department of Parks. [Technical_Report]
1997 Lafferty, K. D. and M. E. Torchin. 1997. Parasites of the sand crabs, Emerita analoga and Blepharipoda occidentalis and the risk of infection for foraging sea otters, Enhydra lutris. Final report to the USGS. [Technical_Report]
1996 Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. J. Grygier. 1996. Detection and preliminary evaluation of natural enemies for possible biological control of the Northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis. Technical report number 3. Centre for Resarch on Introduced Marine Pests. CSIRO Australia. [Technical_Report]
1996 Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 1996 Control of the European Green Crab in California: Detection of Natural Enemies. Final Report to Saltonstall-Kennedy. Grant Number: NA46FDO493. [Technical_Report]
1995 Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1995. Invasion of California estuaries by the nonindigenous green crab Carcinus maenas: assessment of impact and geographic spread. 1992-1994 Sea Grant Biennial Report of Completed Projects. [Technical_Report]
1995 Lafferty, K. D. 1995. Santa Barbara County wetlands. pp. 4-22 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the S.B. County. [Technical_Report]
1995 Sandoval, C. P. and K. D. Lafferty 1995. Invertebrate communities. pp. 39-45 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara. [Technical_Report]
1995 Lafferty, K. D. 1995. Bird communities. pp. 46-54 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara. [Technical_Report]
1995 Lafferty, K. D. and J. A. Altstatt 1995. Fish communities. pp. 55-73. In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara. [Technical_Report]
1994 Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1994. Green Crab Alert. Crab Newsletter Vol. 1, No 1: 4-5. [Technical_Report]
1994 Engle, J.M., L. Gorodezky, K.D. Lafferty, R.F. Ambrose, and P.T. Raimondi. 1994. First year study plan for inventory of coastal ecological resources of the northern Channel Islands and Ventura/Los Angeles Counties. Report to the California Coastal Commission. September 1994. 31 p. [Technical_Report]
1992 Lafferty, K. D. and C. P. Sandoval. 1992. A Survey of the Fishes of Goleta Slough. Report to City of S.B. [Technical_Report]
Thesis_or_DissertationPublication_BriefFact_Sheet_OutreachBook_ReviewNewsletterProductProceedings
2006 Lafferty, K. D., A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Parasites dominate food web links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:11211-11216. [Proceedings]
2006 Lafferty, K. D. 2006. Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 273. [Proceedings]
2005 Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 2005. Biological control of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas: natural enemy evaluation and analysis of host specificity. Pages 102-115 in M. S. Hoddle, editor. Second International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods. Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, University of California, Riverside. [Proceedings]
2002 Lafferty, K. D. 2002. Biological control of marine invasions. Pp 14-20 In Invasions in Aquatic Ecosystems: Impacts on Restoration and Potential for Control. Proceedings of a Workshop, April 25, 1998, Sacramento, California. Cohen, A.N. and K. Webb (eds.). San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California. [Proceedings]
2000 Lafferty, K. D. and D. Kushner. 2000. Population regulation of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentritus purpuratus, at the California Channel Islands. pp 379-381 in, DR Brown, KL Mitchell and HW Chang eds., Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Minerals Management Service Publication # 99-0038. [Proceedings]
2000 Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 2000. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. pp 339-346 in, DR Brown, KL Mitchell and HW Chang eds., Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Minerals Management Service Publication # 99-0038. [Proceedings]
1999 Lafferty, K. D. and D. Kushner. 1999. Population regulation of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentritus purpuratus, at the California Channel Islands. California Channel Islands Symposium (Research Note). [Proceedings]
1999 Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 1999. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. California Channel Islands Symposium (Research Paper). [Proceedings]
1994 Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1994. Potential uses for biological control of alien marine species. In Proceedings of the Conference & Workshop on Nonindigenous Estuarine and Marine Organisms. US Department of Commerce, NOAA Office of the Chief Scientist. pp. 97-102. [Proceedings]
Book_Chapter
2012 Lafferty, KD, AM Kurs. 2012. Ecological consequences of manipulative parasites. In: Hughes, DP, J Brodeur, F Thomas (eds.). Host Manipulation by Parasites. Oxford University Press. 240p. [Book_Chapter]
2012 Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM (2011) Parasites. In: Sibley RM, Brown JH, Brown A, editors. Metabolic Ecology: a scaling approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wilely-Blackwell. pp. 234-247. [Book_Chapter]
2010 Lafferty, K. D., M. E. Torchin, and A. M. Kuris. 2010. The geography of host and parasite invasions. Pages 191-203 in S. Morand and B. Krasnov, editors. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Lafferty, K. D. 2008. Effects of disease on community interactions and food-web structure. Pages 205-222 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Hall, S. R., K. D. Lafferty, J. M. Brown, C. E. Caceres, J. M. Chase, A. P. Dobson, R. D. Holt, C. G. Jones, S. E. Randolph, and P. Rohani. 2008. Is infectious disease just another type of consumer-resource interaction? Pages 223-241 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Perkins, S., S. Altizer, O. Bjornstad, J. Burdon, K. Clay, L. Gomez-Aparicio, J. Jeschke, P. Johnson, K. Lafferty, C. Malstrom, P. Martin, A. Power, P. Thrall, D. Strayer, and M. Uriarte. 2008. Infectious disease in invasion biology. Pages 179-204 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Torchin, M. E. and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Escape from parasites. Pages 203-214 in G. Rilov and J. Crooks, editors. Marine Bioinvasions: Ecology, conservation and management perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Rapport, D. J., P. Daszak, A. Froment, J.-F. Guégan, K. D. Lafferty, A. Larigauderie, A. Mazumder, and A. Winding. 2008. The impact of anthropogenic environmental change at global and regional scales on biodiversity and human health. Pages 41-60 in O. E. Sala, Meyerson, L. A., Parmesan, C., editor. Biodiversity Change and Human Health. Island Press, Washington. [Book_Chapter]
2008 Thomas, M. B., K. D. Lafferty, and C. S. Friedman. 2008. Biodiversity and Disease. Pages 229-244 in O. E. Sala, Meyerson, L. A., Parmesan, C., editor. Biodiversity Change and Human Health. Island Press, Washington. [Book_Chapter]
2006 Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. Pages 119-134 in S. Collinge and C. Ray, editors. Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [Book_Chapter]
2005 Huspeni, T. C., R. F. Hechinger, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: opportunities, applications and comparisons with conventional community approaches, Pages 297-314 in S. A. Bortone, ed. Estuarine Indicators. Boca Raton, CRC Press. [Book_Chapter]
2005 Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris (2005) Parasitism and environmental disturbances. Parasitism and ecosystems (eds F. Thomas, J. F. Guégan and F. Renaud), 113-123. Oxford, Oxford. [Book_Chapter]
2005 Lafferty, K. D., K. F. Smith, M. E. Torchin, A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2005. The role of infectious disease in natural communities: what introduced species tell us. in D. F. Sax, J. J. Stachowicz, and S. D. Gaines, editors. Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass. [Book_Chapter]
2002 Lafferty, K.D. 2002. Inter-specific interactions in trematode communities. Pp 153-169 in E. E. Lewis, M. V. K. Sukhdeo and J. F. Campbell, eds. The Behavioral Ecology of Parasites. CABI [Book_Chapter]
1997 Lafferty, K. D. 1997. The ecology of parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. pp 316-332 In, Parasites and Pathogens: Effects on Host Hormones and Behavior. N. E. Beckage and M. Zuk, eds. [Book_Chapter]
1995 Gaines, S. D. and K. D. Lafferty. 1995. Modeling the dynamics of marine species: the importance of incorporating larval dispersal. Pp. 389-412 in L. McEdward ed., Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. CRC Press. [Book_Chapter]


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