Publications

2024

Johnson, P. T. J., Calhoun, D. M., Achatz, T. J., Greiman, S. E., Gestos, A., and W. H., Keeley (2024). Outbreak of parasite-induced limb malformations in a declining amphibian species in Colorado. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 24: 100965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.100965  PDF 

Locke, S. A., Calhoun, D. M., Valencia Cruz, J. M., Ebbs, E. T., Diaz Pernett, S. C., Tkach, V. V., Kinsella, J. M., Freeman, M. A., Blanar, C. A., and P. T. J. Johnson (2024). Expanding on expansus: A new species of Scaphanocephalus from North America and the Caribbean based on molecular and morphological data. Parasitology, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182024000647  PDF 

Vanderzanden, M. J., Gorsky, A., Hansen, G. J. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Latzka, A. W., Mikulyuk, A., Rohwer, R. R., Spear, M. J., and J. R. Walsh (2024). Nine Lessons about aquatic invasive species from the North-Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program. BioScience, 74(8), 509-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae062  PDF 

De Wit, C. D. G. and Johnson, P. T. J (2024). Black Spot Syndrome in ocean surgeonfish: using video-based surveillance to quantify disease severity and test environmental drivers. Marine Biology, 171: 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04426-1  PDF 

Sauer, E. L., Venesky, M. D., McMahon, T., A., Cohen, J. M., Bessler, S., Brannelly, L. A., Brem, F., Halstead, N., Hyman, O., Johnson, P. T. J., Richards-Zawacki, C. L., Rumschlag, S. L., Sears, B., and J. R. Rohr (2024). Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses. Ecology Letters 27: e14431. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14431  PDF 

Thieltges, D. W., Johnson, P. T. J, van Leeuwen, A., and J. Koprivnikar. Effects of predation risk on parasite-host interactions and wildlife diseases. Ecology 105(6): e4315. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4315  PDF 

Malawauw, R. J., Piaskowy, J., Ter Horst, L. J., Calhoun, D. M., and P. T. J., Johnson (2024). Parasitism in reef fish communities: evaluating the roles of host traits, habitat use, and phylogeny on infection by Scaphanocephalus (Trematoda). Coral Reefs, 43: 509–522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02480-1  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Stewart Merrill, T. E., Dean, A. D. and A. Fenton (2024). Diverging effects of host density and richness across biological scales drive diversity-disease outcomes. Nature Communications 15:1937. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46091-4  PDF 

2023

McMahon, T. A., Nordheim, C. L., Detmering, S. E., Johnson, P. T. J., Rohr, J. R., and D. J. Civitello (2023). Pseudacris regilla metamorphs acquire resistance to a deadly pathogen after exposure to the killed fungus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 55: 193-198. https://doi: 10.3354/dao03753.

Calhoun, D. M., Curtis, J., Hassan, C. and P. T. J. Johnson (2023). Putting infection on the map: Using heatmaps to characterize within- and between-host distributions of trematode metacercariae. Journal of Helminthology 97: E33. https://doi:10.1017/S0022149X2300069X  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J., Thieltges, D. W., and P. T. J. Johnson (2023). Consumption of trematode parasite infectious stages: from conceptual synthesis to future research agenda. Journal of Helminthology 97: E33. https://doi:10.1017/S0022149X23000111  PDF 

Snyder, P. W., Ramsay, C., Harjoe, C. T., Harjoe, C. C., Khazan, E. S., Briggs, C. J., Hoverman, J. T., Johnson, P. T. J, Preston, D., Rohr, J. R. and A. R. Blaustein (2023). Experimental evidence that host species composition alters host-pathogen dynamics in a ranavirus-amphibian assemblage. Ecology 104: e3885. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3885  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Stewart Merrill, T. E., Calhoun, D. M., McDevitt-Galles, T., and B. K. Hobart (2023). Into the danger zone: how the within-host distribution of parasites controls virulence. Ecology Letters 27: e14352. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14352  PDF 

2022

Stewart Merrill, T., Calhoun, D. M. and P. T. J. Johnson (2022). Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: quantifying competence for complete multi-host, multi-parasite communities. Functional Ecology 36: 1845-1857. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14068  PDF 

Li, J., Chapman, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2022). Co-infesting symbionts on a threatened marine host: evaluating correlations between an introduced parasitic isopod and a native commensal clam. Marine Ecology Progress Series 695: 83-93. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14105  PDF 

McDevitt-Galles, T., Moss, W. E., Briggs, C. J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2022). How extreme drought events, introduced species, and disease interact to affect threatened amphibian populations. Freshwater Biology 41: 680-694. https://doi.org/10.1086/722679  PDF 

Nordheim, C., Detmering, S., Civitello, D., Johnson, P. T. J., Rohr, J., and T. McMahon (2022). Metabolites from the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis induce acquired resistance in Cuban treefrog tadpoles. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 2398-2403. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14242  PDF 

Moss, W. E., Harper, L. R., Davis, M. A., Goldberg, C. S., Smith, M. W. and P. T. J. Johnson (2022). Navigating the tradeoffs between environmental DNA and conventional field surveys for improved amphibian monitoring. Ecosphere 13: e3941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3941  PDF 

Hobart, B. K., Moss, W. E., McDevitt-Galles, T., Stewart Merrill, T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2022). It's a worm-eat-worm world: consumption of parasite free-living stages protects hosts and benefits predators. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 35-45.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13591  PDF 

2021

McDevitt-Galles, T., Carpenter, S., Koprivnikar, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2021). How predator and parasite size interact to determine consumption of infectious stages. Oecologia 197:551-564. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05010-w  PDF 

Moss, W. E., McDevitt-Galles, T., Muths, E., Bobzien, S., Purificato, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2021). Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring. Biological Conservation 263: 109352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109352  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and. S. E. Haas (2021). Why do parasites exhibit reverse latitudinal diversity gradients? Testing the roles of host diversity, habitat, and climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1810-1821.  https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13347  PDF  

Bjarke, N., Livneh, B., Elmendorf, S., Molotch, N., Hinckley, E.-L., Emery, N., Johnson, P. T. J., Morse, J., and K. Suding (2021).Catchment scale observations at the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site. Hydrological Processes 35: e14320. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14320  PDF 

Christianson, K., Loria, K., Blanken, P., Caine, T. N. and P. T. J. Johnson (2021). On thin ice: linking elevation and long-term losses of lake ice cover. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 6: 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10181  PDF 

Valenzuela-Sanchez, A., Wilber, M., Canessa, S., Bacigalupe, L., Muths, E., Schmidt, B., Cunningham, A., Ozgul, A., Johnson, P. T. J. and H. Cayuela (2021). Why disease ecology needs life-history theory: a host perspective. Ecology Letters 24: 876-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13681  PDF 

Locke, S., Drago, F. B., López-Hernández, D., Chibwana, F. D., Núñez, V., Van Dam, A., Fernanda Achinelly, M., Johnson, P. T. J., Costa Alves de Assis, J., Lane de Melo, A., and H. Alves Pinto (2021). Intercontinental distributions, phylogenetic position and life cycles of species of Apharyngostrigea (Digenea, Diplostomoidea) illuminated with morphological, experimental, molecular and genomic data. International Journal for Parasitology 51: 667-683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.12.006  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Calhoun, D. M., Moss, W. E., McDevitt-Galles, T., Riepe, T. B., Hallas, J. M., Parchman, T. L., Feldman, C. R., Achatz, T. J., Tkach, V. V., Cropanzano, J., Bowerman, J., and J. Koprivnikar (2021). The cost of travel: how dispersal ability limits local adaptation in host-parasite interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34: 512-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13754  PDF 

Johnson, S. K. and P. T. J. Johnson (2021). Toxoplasmosis: Recent advances in understanding the link between infection and host behavior. Animal Biosciences 9: 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-081720-11112  PDF 

2020

Calhoun, D. M., Esfahani, E., Locke, S. A., Moser, W., and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). How parasite exposure and time interact to determine Australapatemon burti (Trematoda: Digenea) infections in its intermediate leech host (Erpobdella microstoma) (Hirudinea: Eropdellidae). Experimental Parasitology 219: 108002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2020.108002  PDF 

Rose. D. P., Calhoun. D. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Infection prevalence and pathology of the cymothoid parasite Olencira praegustator in Atlantic menhaden. Invertebrate Biology 2020;00:e12300. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12300  PDF 

Loria, K. A., Christianson, K. R. and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Phenology of alpine zooplankton populations and the importance of lake ice-out, Journal of Plankton Research 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaa050  PDF 

McKee, K. M., Koprivnikar, J. Johnson, P. T. J. and M. T. Arts (2020). Parasite infectious stages provide essential fatty acids and lipid-rich resources to freshwater consumers. Oecologia 192:477-488. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04572-0  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Sokol, E. R., Hell, K., McKnight, D. M. and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Experimental effects of elevated temperature and nitrogen deposition on high elevation aquatic communities. Aquatic Sciences 82: 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-019-0678-4  PDF 

Iwaniec, D., Gooseff, M., Suding, K., Johnson, D., Reed, D., Peters, D., Adams, B., Barrett, J., Bestelmeyer, B., Castorani, M., Cook, E., Davidson, M., Hanan, N., Huenneke, L., Johnson, P., McKnight, D., Miller, R., Okin, G., Preston, D., Rassweiller, A., Ray, C., Sala, O., Schooley, R., Seastedt, T., Spasojevic, M., Vivoni, E. and P. Groffman. Future trajectories for ecosystems of the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of connectivity. Ecosphere, 12(5), e03432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-019-0678-4  PDF 

Martin, K. R., Johnson, P. T. J., Bowerman, J. and J. Li (2020). Biogeography of the freshwater gastropod, Planorbella trivolvis, in the western United States. PLoS ONE 15(7):e0235989. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235989  PDF 

Wilber, M. Q., Briggs., C. J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Disease’s hidden death toll: Using parasite aggregation patterns to quantify landscape-level host mortality in a wildlife system. Journal of Animal Ecology 2020l, 00:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13343  PDF 

Olesky, I. A., Beck, W., Lammers, R., Steger, C., Christianson, K., Wilson, C., Johnson, G., Vincent, K., Johnson, P. T. J., and J. Baron (2020). The role of warm, dry summers and variation in snowpack on phytoplankton dynamics in mountain lakes. Ecology 101(10):e03125. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3132  PDF 

Stewart Merrill, T. E. and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Toward a mechanistic understanding of competence: a missing link in diversity-disease research. Parasitology 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182020000943  PDF 

Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, P. T. J., and C. J. Briggs (2020). Disease hotspots or hot species? Infection dynamics in multi-host metacommunities controlled by species composition, not source location. Ecology Letters,23(8), 1201-1211. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13518  PDF 

Moss, W. E., McDevitt-Galles, T., Calhoun, D. M. and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Tracking the assembly of nested parasite communities: using β-diversity to understand variation in parasite richness and composition over time and scale. ​Journal of Animal Ecology 2020;00:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13204  PDF 

McDevitt-Galles, T., Moss, W. E., Calhoun, D. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). Phenological synchrony drives disease dynamics in host - parasite systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 287:20192597. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2597  PDF 

Wood, C. L., Summerside, M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). How host diversity and abundance affect parasite infections: results from a whole-ecosystem manipulation of bird activity. Biological Conservation 248, 108683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108683  PDF 

Loria K. A., McKnight D., Ragar D. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2020). The life aquatic in high relief: how elevation dictates the physical and biological characteristics of alpine lakes in the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquatic Sciences 82:11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-019-0684-6  PDF 

2019

Kohl, Z. F., Calhoun, D. M., Elmer, F., Peachey, R. B. J., Leslie, K. L., Tkach, V., Kinsella, J. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). Black-spot syndrome in Caribbean fishes linked to trematode parasite infection (Scaphanocephalus expansus). Coral Reefs 38: 917-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01819-3.   PDF 

Elmer, F., Kohl, Z. F., Johnson, P. T. J., and R. B. J. Peachey (2019). Black spot syndrome in reef fishes: using archival imagery and field surveys to characterize spatial and temporal distribution in the Caribbean. Coral Reefs 38: 1303-1315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01843-3  PDF 

Wood, C. L., M. Summerside, and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). An effective method for ecosystem-scale manipulation of bird abundance and diversity. Ecology and Evolution 9: 9748-9758. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5509  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Calhoun, D. M., Riepe, T. B., and J. Koprivnikar (2019). Community disassembly and disease: realistic -- but not randomized -- biodiversity losses enchance parasite transmission. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 286. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0260  PDF 

Riepe, T. B., Calhoun, D. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). Comparision of direct and indirect technique for evaluating endoparasite infections in wild-caught newts (Taricha torosa and Taricha granulosa). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 134: 137-146. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03365  PDF 

Stutz, W. E., Calhoun, D. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). Resistance and tolerance: a hierarchical framework to compare individual versus family-level host contributions in an experimental amphibian-trematode system. Experimental Parasitology 199: 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2019.03.001  PDF 

Calhoun, D. M., Leslie, K. L., Riepe, T. B., Achatz, T. J., McDevitt-Galles, T., Tkach, V. V., and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). Patterns of Clinostomum marginatum infection in fishes and amphibians: integration of field, genetic, and experimental approaches. Journal of Helminthology 94: e44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X18001244.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Calhoun, D. M., Riepe, T. B., and J. Koprivnikar (2019). Chance or choice? Understanding parasite selection and infection in multi-host communities. International Journal of Parasitology 49:407-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.12.007  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J., B. J. Hoye, T. M. Y. Urichuk, and P. T. J. Johnson (2019). Endocrine and immune responses of larval amphibians to trematode infections. Parasitology Research 118: 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-6154-6  PDF 

2018

Springer, Y. P. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Large-scale health disparities associated with tickborne diseases in the United States, 2007–2013. PLoS ONE 13: e0204609. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204609  PDF 

Mihaljevic, J. R., Hoverman, J. T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Co-exposure to multiple Ranavirus types enhances viral infectivity and replication in a larval amphibian system. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 132: 23-35. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03300  PDF 

Reid, A. J., Carlson, A. K., Creed, I. F., Eliason, E. J., Gell, P. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Kidd, K. A., MacCormack, T. J., Olden, J. D., Ormerod, S. J., Smol, J. P., Taylor, W. W., Tockner, K., Vermaire, J. C., Dudgeon, D., and S. J. Cooke (2018). Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity. Biological Reviews 94: 849-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12480  PDF 

Miller, D. A. W., Grant, E. H. C., Muths, E., Amburgey, S. M., Adams, M. J., Joseph, M. B., Waddle, H., Johnson, P. T. J., et al. (2018). Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate driven change in North American amphibian communities. Nature Communications 9: 3926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06157-6  PDF 

McDevitt-Galles, T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Drought attenuates the impact of fish on aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and species composition. Freshwater Biology 63: 1457-1468. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.1317  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. (2018). Acceptance of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal for 2018: a fascination of the abomination. Journal of Parasitology 104: 595-599.  https://doi.org/10.1645/18-152  PDF 

Johnson, S. K., Fitza, M. A., Lerner, D. A., Calhoun, D. M., Beldon, M. A., Chan, E. T., and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Risky Business: linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviors across individuals and countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: 285: 20180822. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0822  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Calhoun, D. M., Stokes, A. N., Susbilla, C. B., McDevitt-Galles, T., Briggs, C., Hoverman, J. T., Tkach, V., and J. de Roode (2018). Of poisons and parasites-the defensive role of tetrodotoxin against infections in newts. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 1192-1204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12816  PDF 

Tornabene, B. J., Blaustein, A. R., Briggs, C. J., Calhoun D. M., Johnson, P. T. J., McDevitt-Galles, T., Rohr, J. R., and J. T. Hoverman (2018). Assessing the influence of landscape and environmental factors on ranavirus epidemiology in a California amphibian assemblage. Freshwater Biology 63: 639-651. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13100  PDF 

Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, P. T. J. and C. J. Briggs (2018). When amphibian chytrid fungus invades: integrating theory and data to understand disease-induced amphibian declines. Chapter 12 in the edited volume Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316479964.018.   PDF 

Paull, S. H. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). How temperature, pond-drying, and nutrients influence parasite infection and pathology. EcoHealth 15: 396-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-018-1320-y  PDF 

Preston, D. E., Hedman, H. D. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Nutrient availability and invasive fish jointly drive community dynamics in an experimental aquatic system. Ecosphere 9(3): e02153. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2153  PDF 

Calhoun, D. M., McDevitt-Galles, T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Parasites of invasive freshwater fishes and the factors affecting their richness and abundance. Freshwater Science 37: 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1086/696566.    PDF 

McDevitt-Galles, T., Calhoun, D. M.and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Parasite richness and abundance within aquatic macroinvertebrates: testing the role of host-and habitat-level factors. Ecosphere 9: e02188. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2188  PDF 

Stutz, W. E., Blaustein, A. R., Briggs, C. J., Hoverman, J. T., Rohr, J. R., and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Using multi-response models to investigate pathogen coinfections across scales: Insights from emerging diseases of amphibians. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 1109-1120. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12938  PDF 

Orlofske, S. A., Flaxman, S. M., Joseph, M. B., Fenton, A., Melbourne, B. A. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: quantitative evidence for the importance of non-linear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 703-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12783  PDF 

Haas, S. E., Reeves, M. K., Pinkney, A. E., and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Continental-extent patterns in amphibian malformations linked to parasites, chemical contaminants, and their interactions. Global Change Biology 24: e275-e288. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.1390  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Stanton, D. E., Forshay, K. J., and D. M. Calhoun (2018). Vertically challenged: how disease suppresses Daphina vertical migration behavior. Limology and Oceanography 63: 886-896. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10676  PDF 

Mihaljevic, J. R., Hoye, B., and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Parasite metacommunities: evaluating the roles of host community composition and environmental gradients in structuring symbiont communities within amphibians. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12735  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J., Riepe, T. B., Calhoun, D. M. and P. T. J. Johnson (2018). Whether larval amphibians school does not affect the parasite aggregation rule: testing the effects of host spatial heterogeneity in field and experimental studies. Oikos 127: 99–110. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04249  PDF 

Giurfa, M., Schnell, A., Vedhara, K., Wystrach, A., Abell, J., Dukas, R., Mann, J., Scholey, A., Plotnik, J., Taylor, A. H., Johnson, S. K., Johnson, P. T. J., Hopper, L. M., Graham, K, Hobaiter, C., Byrne, R. W., Kaminsk, J., Wynne, C. D., and Z. Todd (2018). The psychologists’ tree of life. The Psychologist 31: 28-53.    PDF 

2017

Hannon, E. R., Calhoun, D. M., Chadalwada, S. and P. T. J. Johnson (2017). Circadian rhythms of trematode parasites: applying mixed models to test underlying patterns. Parasitology 145: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017001706.   PDF 

Calhoun, D. M., Bucciarelli, G. M., Kats, L. B., Zimmer, R. K. and P. T. J. Johnson (2017). Noxious newts and their natural enemies: Experimental effects of tetrodotoxin exposure on trematode parasites and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Toxicon 137:120-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2017.07.021.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., and M. Q. Wilber (2017). Biological and statistical processes jointly drive population aggregation: using host-parasite interactions to understand Taylor's power law. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 284: 20171388. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1388  PDF 

McCaffrey, K. and P. T. J. Johnson (2017). Drivers of symbiont diversity in freshwater snails: a comparative analysis of resource availability, community heterogeneity, and colonization opportunities. Oecologia 183: 927-938 [Highlighted Student Research]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3795-y  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Hedman, H. D., Esfahani, E. R., Pena, E. M., Boland, C. E., Lunde, K. B. and P. T. J. Johnson (2017). Responses of a wetland ecosystem to the controlled introduction of invasive fish. Freshwater Biology 62: 767-778. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12900  PDF 

Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, P. T. J., and C. J. Briggs (2017). When can we infer mechanism from parasite aggregation? A constraint-based approach to disease ecology. Ecology 98: 688-702. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1675  PDF 

2016

Stephens, P. E., Altizer, S., Smith, K. F., Aguirre, A. A., Brown, J. H., Budischak, S., Byers, J. E., Dallas, T., Davies, J. T., Drake, J. M., Ezenwa, V., Farrel, M., Gittleman, J. L., Han, B., Huang, S., Hutchinson, R. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Nunn, C. L., Onstad, D., Park, A., Vazquez-Prokopec, G. M., Schmidt, J. P. and R. Poulin (2016). The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. Ecology Letters 19: 1159-1171. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12644  PDF 

Wood, C. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). How does space influence the relationship between host and parasite diversity? Journal of Parasitology 102: 485-494. https://doi.org/10.1645/15-920  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Caine, N., McKnight, D. M., Williams, M. W., Hell, K., Miller, M. P., Hart, S. J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure. Geophysical Research Letters 43: 5353-5360. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069036  PDF 

Grant, E. H. C., Willer, D. A. W., Schmidt, B. R., Adams, M. J., Amburgey, S. M., Chambert, T., Cruickshank, S. S., Fisher, R. N., Green, D. M., Hossack, B. R., Johnson, P. T. J., Joseph, M. B., Rittenhouse, T., Ryan, M., Waddle, J. H., Walls, S. C., Bailey, L. L., Fellers, G. M., Gorman, T. A., Ray, A. M., Pilliod, D. S., Prices, S. J., Saenz, D., Sadinski, W. and E. Muths (2016). Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines. Scientific Reports 6: 25625. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25625  PDF 

Altman, K. A., Paull, S. H., Johnson, P. T. J., Golembieski, M. N., Stephens, J. P., LaFonte, B. E., and T. R. Raffel (2016). Host and parasites thermal acclimation responses depend on the stage of infection. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 1014-2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12510  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). The rise of disease ecology and its implications for parasitology -- a review. Journal of Parasitology 102: 397-409. https://doi.org/10.1645/15-942  PDF 

Johnson P. T. J., Wood, C. L., Joseph, M. B., Preston, D. L., Haas, S. E., and Y. P. Springer (2016). Habitat heterogeneity drives the host diversity-begets-parasite diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies. Ecology Letters 19: 752-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12609  PDF 

Mischler, J. A., Johnson, P. T. J., McKenzie, V. J., and A. R. Townsend (2016). Parasite infection alters nitrogen cycling at the ecosystem scale. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 817-828. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12505  PDF 

Calhoun, D. M., Woodhams, D., Howard, C., LaFonte, B. E., Gregory, J. R., and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). Role of antimicrobial peptides in amphibian defense against trematode infection. EcoHealth 13: 383-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-016-1102-3  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Mischler, J., Townsend, A. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). Disease ecology meets ecosystem science. Ecosystems 19: 737-748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-9965-2  PDF 

Hannon, E. R., Kinsella, J. M., Calhoun, D. M., Joseph, M. B. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). Endohelminths in bird hosts from northern California and an analysis of the role of life history traits on parasite richness. Journal of Parasitology 102: 199-207. https://doi.org/10.1645/15-867  PDF 

Joseph, M. B., Preston, D. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2016). Integrating occupancy models and structural equation models to understand species occurrence. Ecology 97: 765-775. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0833.1  PDF 

Springer Y. P., et al. (2016). Tick-, mosquito-, and rodent-borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 7:e01271. 10.1002/ecs2.1271. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1271  PDF 

2015

Johnson, P. T. J., Ostfeld, R. S. and F. Keesing (2015). Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease. Ecology Letters 18: 1119-1133. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12479  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., De Roode, J. C. and A. Fenton (2015). Why infectious disease biology needs community ecology. Science 349: 1259504. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259504  PDF 

LaFonte, B. E., Raffel, T. R., Monk, I. N. and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). Quantifying larval trematode infections in hosts: a comparison of method validity and evaluation of their implications for infection success. Experimental Parasitology 154: 155-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2015.04.003.   PDF 

Calhoun, D. M., Schaffer, P. A., Gregory, J. R., Hardy, K. M., and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). Experimental exposure of bluegill to Ribeiroia ondatrae: histopathology and hematological responses. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 27: 185-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/08997659.2015.1084068  PDF 

Orlofske, S. A., Jadin, R. C. and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). It's a predator-eat-parasite world: how characteristics of predator, parasite and environment affect consumption. Oecologia 178: 537-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3243-4  PDF 

Huver, J. R., Koprivnikar, J., Johnson, P. T. J. and S. Whyard (2015). Development and application of an eDNA method to detect and quantify a pathogenic parasite in aquatic ecosystems. Ecological Applications 25: 991-1002. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1530.1  PDF 

Mihaljevic, J. R., Joseph, M. B., and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). Using multi-species occupancy models to improve the characterization and understanding of metacommunity structure. Ecology 96: 1783-1792. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1580.1  PDF 

Stewart-Koster, B., Olden, J. D., and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). Integrating landscape connectivity and invasion vulnerability to guide offensive and defensive invasive species management. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 366-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12395  PDF 

Wood, C. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). A world without parasites: Exploring the hidden ecology of infection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 425-434. https://doi.org/10.1890/140368  PDF 

Paull, S. H., Raffel, T. R., LaFonte, B. E. and P. T. J. Johnson (2015). How temperature shifts affect parasite production: Testing the roles of thermal stress and acclimation. Functional Ecology 29: 941-950. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12401  PDF 

2014

Preston, D. L., Boland, C., Hoverman, J. T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2014). Natural enemy ecology: comparing the effects of predation risk, infection risk and disease on host behavior. Functional Ecology 28: 1472-1481. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12293  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and J. T. Hoverman (2014). Heterogeneous hosts: how variation in host size, behaviour, and immunity affect parasite aggregation. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 1103-1112. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12215  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J., Paull, S. H. and P. T. J. Johnson (2014). Combined influence of hydroperiod and parasitism on larval amphibian development. Freshwater Science 33: 941-949. https://doi.org/10.1086/676674  PDF 

Orlofske, S. A., Jadin, R. C., Hoverman, J. T. and P. T. J. Johnson (2014). Predation and disease: understanding the effects of predators at multiple trophic levels on pathogen transmission. Freshwater Biology 59: 1064-1075. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12329  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Koprivnikar, J., Orlofske, S. A., Melbourne, B. A. and B. E. LaFonte (2014). Making the right choice: testing the drivers of asymmetric infections within hosts and their consequences for pathology. Oikos 123:875-885. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.0104  PDF 

Paull, S. H. and P. T. J. Johnson (2014). Experimental warming drives a seasonal shift in the timing of host-parasite dynamics with consequences for disease risk. Ecology Letters 17: 445-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12244  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Jacobs, A. Z., Orlofske, S. A., and P. T. J. Johnson (2014). Complex life cycles in a pond food web: effects of life stage structure and parasites on network properties, trophic positions and the fit of a probabilistic niche model. Oecologia 174: 953-965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2806-5.   PDF 

2013

Johnson, P. T. J., Preston, D. L., Hoverman, J. T., and B. E. LaFonte (2013). Host and parasite diversity jointly regulate pathogen transmission in complex communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 16916-16921. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310557110  PDF 

Reeves, M., Medley, K., Pinkney, A., Holyoak, M., Johnson, P. T. J. and M. Lannoo (2013). Localized hotspots drive continental geography of abnormal amphibians. PLoS ONE 8: e77467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077467  PDF 

Altizer, S., Ostfeld, R. S., Harvell, C. D., Johnson, P. T. J., and S. Kutz (2013). Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework. Science 341: 514-519. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1239401.   PDF 

Rohr, J. R., Blaustein, A. R., Paull, S. H., Johnson, P. T. J., Raffel, T., and S. Young (2013). Using physiology to understand climate-driven changes in disease and their implications for conservation. Conservation Physiology 1: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cot022  PDF 

LaFonte, B. E. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Experimental infection dynamics: using immunosuppression and in vivo parasite tracking to understand host resistance in an amphibian-trematode system. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 3700-3708. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.088104  PDF 

Lambden, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Quantifying the biomass of parasites to understand their role in aquatic communities. Ecology and Evolution 3: 2310-2321. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.635.   PDF 

Hoverman, J. T., Hoye, B. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Does timing matter? How priority effects influence the outcome of parasite interactions within hosts. Oecologia 173: 1471-1480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2692-x.   PDF 

Reeves, M., Medley, K., Pinkney, A., Holyoak, M., Johnson, P. T. J. and M. Lannoo (2013). Localized hotspots drive continental geography of abnormal amphibians. PLoS ONE 8: e77467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077467  PDF 

Pinto, H. A., Jadin, R. C., Orlofske, S. A., Johnson, P. T. J. and A. L. Melo (2013). Biomphalaria straminea (Mollusca: Planorbidae) as an intermediate host for Ribeiroia (Trematoda: Psilostomidae) in Brazil. Journal of Parasitology 99: 914-918. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-3214.1  PDF 

Joseph, M. B., Mihaljevic, J. R., Arellano, A. L., Kueneman, J. G., Preston, D. L., Cross, P. C. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Taming wildlife disease: bridging the gap between science and management. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 702-712. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.1208  PDF 

Peterson, A. C., Richgels, K. L. D., Johnson, P. T. J., and V. J. McKenzie (2013). Investigating the dispersal routes used by an invasive amphibian,Lithobates catesbeianus, in human-dominated landscapes. Biological Invasions 15: 2179-2191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0442-y.   PDF 

Richgels, K. L. D., Hoverman, J. T., and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Evaluating community structure and the role of regional and local processes in larval trematode metacommunities of Helisoma trivolvisEcography 36: 854-863. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.07868.x  PDF 

Thieltges, D. W., Amundsen, P. A., Hechinger, R. F., Johnson, P. T. J., Lafferty, K. D., Mouritsen, K. N., Preston, D. L., Reise, K., Zander, C. D. and R. Poulin (2013). Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission. Oikos 122: 1473-1482. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00243.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Preston, D. L., Hoverman, J. T., and K. L. D. Richgels (2013). Biodiversity reduces disease through predictable changes in host community competence. Nature 494: 230-234. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11883.   PDF 

Preston, D. L., Orlofske, S. A., Lambden, J. P. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Biomass and productivity of parasites in pond ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12030  PDF 

Paull, S. and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Can we predict climate-driven changes to disease dynamics? Applications for theory and management in the face of uncertainty. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate (J.F. Brodie, E. Post and D. Doak, eds.). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226074641-006  PDF 

McMahon, T. A., Brannelly, L. A., Chatfield, M. W. H., Johnson, P. T. J., Joseph, M. B., McKenzie, V. J., Richards-Zawacki, C. L. and J. R. Rohr (2013). Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has non-amphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence of infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 210-215. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200592110  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Hoverman, J. T., McKenzie, V. J., Blaustein, A. R. and K. L. D. Richgels (2013). Urbanization and wetland communities: applying metacommunity theory to understand local and landscape effects. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12022  PDF 

Hoverman, J. T., Paull, S. H., and P. T. J. Johnson (2013). Does Climate Change Increase the Risk of Disease? Analyzing Published Literature to Detect Climate–Disease Interactions. In Pielke, R. Sr. (ed.), Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources, Vol. 4., Academic Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00406-8.

2012

Paull, S. H., LaFonte, B., and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Temperature-driven shifts in a host-parasite interaction drive nonlinear changes in disease risk. Global Change Biology 18: 3558-3567. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12018  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and J. T. Hoverman (2012). Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 9006-9011. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201790109  PDF 

Koprivnikar, J., Marcogliese, D. J., Rohr, J. R., Orlofske, S. A., Raffel, T. R. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Macroparasite infections of amphibians: what can they tell us? EcoHealth 9: 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201790109  PDF 

Lunde, K. B., Resh, V. T, and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Using a whole-ecosystem manipulation to understand host-parasite interactions and how they vary with study venue. Ecosphere 3: 84. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00001.1.   PDF 

Hoverman, J. T., Mihaljevic, J. R., Richgels, K. L. D., Kerby, J. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Widespread co-occurrence of virulent pathogens within California amphibian communities. EcoHealth 9: 288-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-012-0778-2.   PDF 

Preston, D. L., Orlofske, S. A., McLaughlin, J. P. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Food web including infectious agents for a California freshwater pond. Ecology 93: 1760. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-2194.1  PDF 

Paull, S. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Can we predict climate-driven changes to disease dynamics? Applications for theory and management in the face of uncertainty. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate (J. F. Brodie, E. Post and D. Doak, eds.). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226074641-006   PDF 

Lunde, K. B. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). A practical guide for the study of amphibian malformations and their causes. Journal of Herpetology 46: 429-441. https://doi.org/10.1670/10-319  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and J. T. Hoverman (2012). Parasite diversity and coinfection drive pathogen infection success and host fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 9006-9011. [Faculty of 1000 Recommended] [2013 Mercer Award from Ecological Society of America]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201790109  PDF 

Preston, D. L., Henderson, J. S. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Community ecology of invasions: direct and indirect effects of multiple invasive species on aquatic communities. Ecology 93: 1254-1261. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1821.1  PDF 

Orlofske, S. A., Jadin, R., Preston, D. L., and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Parasite transmission in complex communities: predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians. Ecology 93: 1247-1260. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1901.   PDF 

Preston, D. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). Importance of native amphibians in the diet and distribution of the aquatic garter snake (Thamnophis atratus) in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Journal of Herpetology 46: 221-227. https://doi.org/10.1670/10-065  PDF 

Blaustein, A. R., Gervasi, S. S., Johnson, P. T. J., Hoverman, J. T., Belden, L. K., Bradley, P. W. and G. Y. Xie (2012). Ecophysiology meets conservation: understanding the role of disease in amphibian population declines.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 367: 1688-1707. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0011.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Rohr, J. R., Hoverman, J. T., Kellermanns, E., Bowerman, J. and K. B. Lunde (2012). Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk. Ecology Letters 15: 235-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01730.x  PDF 

Paull, S. H., Song, S. J., McClure, K. M., Sackett, L. C., Kilpatrick, A. M. and P. T. J. Johnson (2012). From superspreaders to disease hotspots: linking transmission across hosts and space. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 75-82. https://doi.org/10.1890/110111.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Preston, D. L., Hoverman, J. T., Henderson, J. S., Paull, S. H., and Redmond, M. D. (2012). Species diversity reduces parasite infection through cross-generational effects on host density. Ecology 93: 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0636.1  PDF 

2011

Hartson, R. B., Orlofske, S. A., Keller, V., Dillon, Jr., R. T., and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Land use and wetland spatial position jointly determine amphibian parasite communities. EcoHealth 8: 485-500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-011-0715-9.   PDF 

Olden, J. D., Vander Zanden, M. J., and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Assessing ecosystem vulnerability to invasive rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) in freshwater environments. Ecological Applications 21: 2587-2599. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-2051.1  PDF 

Redmond, M. D., Hartson, R. B., Hoverman, J. T., de Jesus-Villaneueva, C. N. and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Experimental exposure of Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda) to Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda). Journal of Parasitology 97: 1055-1061. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2832.1  PDF 

Goodman, B. A. and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Disease and the extended phenotype: parasites control host performance and survival through induced changes in body plan. PLoS ONE 6: e20193. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020193  PDF 

Locke, S. A., McLaughlin, J. D., Lapierre, A. R., Johnson, P. T. J. and D. J. Marcogliese (2011). Linking larvae and adults of Apharyngostrigea cornu,Hysteromorpha triloba and Alaria mustelae (Diplostomoidea, Digenea) using molecular data. Journal of Parasitology 97: 846-851. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2775.1  PDF 

Rohr, J. R., Johnson, P. T. J., Paull, S. H., Raffel, T. R., Dobson, A. P., Kilpatrick, A. M., Ruiz-Moreno, D., Pascual, M. and M. B. Thomas (2011). Frontiers in climate change-disease research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 270-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.002.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Kellermanns, E., and J. Bowerman (2011). Critical windows of disease risk: amphibian pathology driven by developmental changes in host resistance and tolerance. Functional Ecology 25: 726-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01830.x  PDF 

Romansic, J. M., Johnson, P. T. J., Searle, C. L., Johnson, J. E., Tunstall, T., Han, B. A., Rohr, J. R. and A. R. Blaustein (2011). Individual and combined effects of multiple pathogens on Pacific treefrogs. Oecologia 166: 1029-1041. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-1932-1.   PDF 

Peñalva-Arana, D. C., Forshay, K. J., Johnson, P. T. J., Strickler, J. R. and S. I. Dodson (2011). Chytrid infection reduces thoracic beat and heart rate of Daphnia pulicariaHydrobiologia 668: 147-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0684-6.   PDF 

Blaustein, A. R., Han, B. A., Relyea, R. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Buck, J. C., Gervasi, S. S. and L. B. Kats (2011). The complexity of amphibian declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1223: 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05909.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and S. Paull (2011). The ecology and emergence of disease in fresh waters. Freshwater Biology 56: 638-657. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02546.x  PDF 

Paull, S. and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). High temperature enhances host pathology in a snail–trematode system: possible consequences of climate change for the emergence of disease. Freshwater Biology 56: 767-778. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02547.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., McKenzie, V. J., Peterson, A. C., Kerby, J. L., Brown, J., Blaustein, A. R. and T. Jackson (2011). Regional decline of an iconic amphibian associated with elevation, land-use change, and invasive species.Conservation Biology 25: 556-566.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01645.x  PDF 

Goodman, B. A. and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Ecomorphology and disease: understanding the cryptic effects of parasitism on host habitat use, thermoregulation, and predator avoidance. Ecology 92: 542-548. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0516.1  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and I. D. Buller (2011). Parasite competition hidden by correlation coinfections: using field studies and experiments to understand parasite interactions. Ecology 92: 535-541. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-0570.1  PDF 

Daly, E. W. and P. T. J. Johnson (2011). Beyond immunity: quantifying the effects of host anti-parasite behavior on parasite transmission. Oecologia 165: 1043-1050. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1778-y.   PDF 

2010

Preston, D. L. and P. T. J. Johnson (2010). Ecological consequences of parasitism. Nature Knowledge 1: 39.    PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and J. Bowerman (2010). Do predators cause frog deformities? The need for an eco-epidemiological approach. Journal of Experimental Zoology 314B: 515-518. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.21369  PDF 

Krugner-Higby, L., Haak, D., Johnson, P. T. J., Shields, J. D., Jones, W. M., Reece, K. S., Meinke, T., Gendron, A. and J. A. Rusak (2010). Ulcerative disease outbreak in crayfish Orconectes propinquus linked to saprolegnia australis in Big Muskellunge Lake, Wisconsin. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 91: 57-66. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02237  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Dobson, A., Lafferty, K. D., Marcogliese, D., Memmott, J., Orlofske, S., Poulin, R., and D. W. Thieltges (2010). When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 362-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.005.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., and D. W. Thieltges (2010). Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 961-970. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.037721  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Townsend, A. R., McKenzie, V. J., Howarth, R., Rejmankova, E. and P. Glibert (2010). Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife. Ecological Applications 20:16-29. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0633.1  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Reeves, M. K., Krest, S. K. and A. E. Pinkney (2010). A decade of deformities: advances in our understanding of amphibian malformations and their implications. In Sparling, Linder, Bishop, Krest (eds), Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2nd edtion. SETAC Press, Pensacola FL. https://doi.org/10.1201/EBK1420064162-c16.   PDF 

Blaustein, A. R. and P. T. J. Johnson (2010). When an infection turns lethal. Nature 465: 881-882. https://doi.org/10.1038/465881a  PDF 

Solomon, C. T., Olden, J. D., Johnson, P. T. J., Dillon, R. T. Jr. and M. J. Vander Zanden (2010). Distribution and community-level effects of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in northern Wisconsin lakes. Biological Invasions 12: 1591-1605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9572-7.   PDF 

Bowerman, J., Johnson, P. T. J., and T. Bowerman (2010). Sublethal predators and their injured prey: linking aquatic predators and severe limb abnormalities in amphibians. Ecology 91: 242-251. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-1687.1  PDF 

Gleason, F. H., Marano, A. V., Johnson, P. T. J., and W. W. Martin (2010). Blastocladian parasites of invertebrates. Fungal Biology Reviews 24: 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbr.2010.03.004.   PDF 

2009

Gross, J. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Prahl, L. K. and W. H. Karasov (2009).  Critical period of sensitivity for effects of cadmium on frog growth and development.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28: 1227-1232. https://doi.org/10.1897/08-205.1  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. (2009). The meaning behind malformed frogs. Conservation Biology 23: 508-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01181.x.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Ives, A. R., Lathrop, R. C. and S. R. Carpenter (2009).  Long-term disease dynamics in lakes: causes and consequences of chytrid infections in Daphnia populations. Ecology 90: 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-2071.1  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Lund, P. J., Hartson, R. B., and T. P. Yoshino (2009). Community diversity reduces Schistosoma mansoni transmission and human infection risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276: 1657-1663. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1718.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Olden, J. D., Solomon, C. T. and M. J. Vander Zanden (2009). Interactions amoung invaders: community and ecosystem effects of multiple invasive species in an experimental aquatic system. Oecologia 159: 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-008-1176-x.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and R. B. Hartson (2009). All hosts are not equal: explaining differential patterns of malformations in an amphibian community. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 191-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01455.x  PDF 

2008

Johnson, P. T. J. and V. J. McKenzie (2008). Effects of environmental change on helminth infections in amphibians: exploring the emergence of Ribeiroia and Echinostoma infections in North America. Chapter 11 in Fried, B. and R. Toledo, The Biology of Echinostomes, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09577-6_11.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Hartson, R. B., Larson, D. J. and D. R. Sutherland (2008). Diversity and disease: community structure drives parasites transmission nad host fitness. Ecology Letters 11: 1017-1026. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01212.x  PDF 

Forshay, K. J., Johnson, P. T. J., Stock, M., Penalva, C. and S. I. Dodson (2008). Festering food: chytridiomycete pathogen reduces quality of Daphnia hosts as a food resource. Ecology 89: 2692-2699. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1984.1  PDF 

Refardt, D., Decaestecker, E., Johnson, P. T. J., and J. Vavra (2008). Morphology, molecular phylogeny, and ecology of Binucleata daphnia n. g., n. sp. (Fungi: Microsporidia), a parasite of Daphnia magna Straus, 1820 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 55: 393-408. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00341.x  PDF 

Lafferty, K. D., Allesina, S., Arin, M., Briggs, C. J., DeLeo, G., Dobson, A. P., Dunne, J. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Kuris, A. M., Marcogliese, D. J., Martinez, N. D., Memmott, J., Marquet, P. A., McLaughlin, J. P., Mordecai, E. A., Pascual, M., Poulin, R., and D. W. Thieltges (2008). Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecology Letters 11: 533-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01174.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Olden, J. D. and M. J. Vander Zanden (2008). Dam invaders: hydrologic impoundments enhance ecosystem invasibility. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6: 357-363. https://doi.org/10.1890/07015  PDF 

Perkins, S., Altizer, S., Bjornstad, O., Burdon, J., Clay, K., Gomez-Aparicio, L., Jeschke, J., Johnson, P. T. J., Lafferty, K., Malstrom, C., Martin, P., Power, A., Thrall, P., Strayer, D. and M. Uriarte (2008). Infectious disease in invasion biology. Chapter 8 in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. T. Eviner, Infectious disease ecology: effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837885.179.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and S. R. Carpenter (2008). Influence of eutrophication on disease in aquatic ecosystems: patterns, processes, and predictions. Chapter 4 (pp. 71-99) in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing and V. T. Eviner (eds.), Infectious disease ecology: effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837885.71  PDF 

2007

Johnson, P. T. J., Chase, J. M., Dosch, K. L., Gross, J., Hartson, R. B., Larson, D., Sutherland, D. R. and S. R. Carpenter (2007).  Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 15781-15786. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707763104  PDF 

Roth, B. M., Kaplan, I. C., Sass, G. G., Johnson, P. T. J., Marburg, A. E., Yannarell, A. C., Havlicek, T. D., Willis, T. V., Turner, M. G. and S. R. Carpenter. (2007). Linking terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: the role of woody habitat in lake food webs. Ecological Modelling 203: 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.005.   PDF 

Carpenter, S. R. B. J. Benson, R. Biggs, J. W. Chipman, J. A. Foley, S. A. Golding, R. B. Hammer, P. C. Hanson, P. T. J. Johnson, A. M. Kamarainen, T. K. Kratz, R. C. Lathrop, K. D. McMahon, B. Provencher, J. A. Rusak, C. T. Solomon, E. H. Stanley, M. G. Turner, M. J. Vander Zanden, C. H. Wu and H. Yuan.  (2007). Understanding regional change: A comparison of two lake districts. BioScience  57: 323-335. https://doi.org/10.1641/B570407  PDF 

2006

Johnson, P. T. J. (2006). Amphibian diversity: decimation by disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 3011-3012. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0600293103.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Stanton, D. E., Preu, E. R., Forshay, K. J. and S. R. Carpenter. (2006). Dining on disease: how interactions between infection and environment affect predation risk. Ecology 87: 1973-1980. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1973:DODHIB]2.0.CO;2  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Preu, E. R., Sutherland, D. R., Romansic, J., Han, B. and A. R. Blaustein. (2006). Adding infection to injury: Synergistic effects of predation and parasitism on salamander limb malformations. Ecology 87: 2227-2235. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2227:AITISE]2.0.CO;2  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Longcore, J. E., Stanton, D. E., Carnegie, R. B., Shields, J. D. and E. R. Preu. (2006). Chytrid infections of Daphnia pulicaria: Development, ecology, pathology and phylogeny of Polycaryum laeve. Freshwater Biology 51: 634-648. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01517.x  PDF 

2005

Wilson, W. D., Johnson, P. T. J., Sutherland, D. R., Moné, H. and E. S. Loker. (2005). A molecular phylogenetic study of the genus Ribeiroia (Digenea): trematodes known to cause limb malformations in amphibians. Journal of Parasitology 91: 1040-1045. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-465R.1  PDF 

Fried, B. and P. T. J. Johnson (2005). In vitro excystment of the metacercariae of Ribeiroia ondatrae. Parasitology Research 95: 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-005-1299-5  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and K. B. Lunde (2005). Parasite infection and limb malformations: A growing problem in amphibian conservation. Amphibian Declines: the Conservation Status of United States Species , M. J. Lannoo (ed). University of California Press: 124-138. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520235922.001.0001  PDF 

2004

Johnson, P. T. J. and J. M. Chase (2004). Parasites in the food web: linking amphibian malformations and aquatic eutrophication. Ecology Letters 7: 521-526. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00610.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., D. R. Sutherland, J. M. Kinsella and K. B. Lunde (2004). Review of the trematode genus Ribeiroia (Psilostomidae): Ecology, life history and pathogenesis with special emphasis on the amphibian malformation problem. Advances in Parasitology 57: 191-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-308X(04)57003-3.   PDF 

2003

Blaustein, A. R. and P. T. J. Johnson (2003). Explaining frog deformities. Scientific American 288: 60-65. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0203-60  PDF 

Blaustein, A. R. and P. T. J. Johnson (2003). The complexity of deformed amphibians. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2003)001[0087:TCODA]2.0.CO;2  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Zelmer, D. A. and J. K. Werner (2003). Limb deformities as an emerging parasitic disease in amphibians: Evidence from museum specimens and resurvey data. Conservation Biology 17: 1724-1737. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-12739.2003.00217.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. (2003). Biased sex ratios in fiddler crabs (Brachyura, Ocypodidae): A review and evaluation of the influence of sampling method, size class, and sex-specific mortality. Crustaceana 76: 559-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00217.x  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and D. R. Sutherland (2003). Amphibian deformities and Ribeiroia infection: An emerging helminthiasis. Trends in Parasitology 19: 332-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1471-4922(03)00148-X.   PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J. and E. G. Ritchie (2003). Macroinvertebrate fauna of an iron-rich stream in the Wet Tropics of Australia: a comparative assessment of communities using a Rapid Bioassessment Protocol. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 331-338. https://biostor.org/reference/239785  PDF 

Bowerman, J. and P. T. J. Johnson (2003). Timing of trematodes-related malformations in Oregon spotted frogs and Pacific treefrogs. Northwestern Naturalist 84: 142-145. https://doi.org/10.2307/3536540.  PDF 

Lannoo M. J., Sutherland, D. R., Jones, P., Rosenberry, D., Klaver, R. W., Hoppe, D. M., Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Facemire, C., and J. M. Kapfer (2003). Multiple causes for the malformed frog phenomenon. In: ATSM STP 1443: G. Linder, Little, E., Krest, S. and D. Sparling (Eds). Multiple stressor effects in relation to declining amphibian populations. ASTM International, West Conshoshocken, PA. https://doi.org/10.1520/STP11186S  PDF 

2002

Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Thurman, E. M., Ritchie, E. G., Wray, S. W., Sutherland, D. R., Kapfer, J. M., Frest, T. J., Bowerman, J. and A. R. Blaustein (2002). Parasite (Ribeiroia ondatrae) infection linked to amphibian malformations in the western United States. Ecological Monographs 72: 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9615(2002)072[0151:PROILT]2.0.CO;2  PDF 

2001

Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Haight, R. W., J. Bowerman, and A. R. Blaustein (2001). Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda: Digenea) infection induces severe limb malformations in western toads (Bufo boreas). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 370-379. https://doi.org/10.1139/z00-210  PDF 

Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Ritchie, E. G., Reaser, J. K., and A. E. Launer (2001). Morphological abnormality patterns in a California amphibian community. Herpetologica 57: 336-352. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3893100.   PDF 

1999

Johnson, P. T. J., Lunde, K. B., Ritchie, E. G. and A. E. Launer (1999). The effect of trematode infection on amphibian limb development and survivorship. Science 284: 802-804. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5415.802  PDF