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  1. Using machine learning to measure changes in invertebrate immunity

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  2. Unhealthy herds and the predator–spreader: Understanding when predation increases disease incidence and prevalence

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2023, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  3. Viral transmission and infection prevalence in a cannibalistic host–pathogen system

    Article • Oecologia, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  4. Estimating R0 from early exponential growth: parallels between 1918 influenza and 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemics

    Article • PNAS Nexus, September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  5. Examining the Effects of Induced Plant Defenses on Spodoptera frugiperda Performance

    Article • Applied Sciences, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  6. Comparing Waves of COVID-19 in the US: Scale of response changes over time

    Article • March 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  7. Hitching a Ride: Examining the Ability of a Specialist Baculovirus to Translocate through Its Insect Host’s Food Plant

    Article • Pathogens, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  8. No escape: The influence of substrate sodium on plant growth and tissue sodium responses

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  9. A tale of two transcriptomic responses in agricultural pests via host defenses and viral replication

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  10. Intraguild predation decreases predator fitness with potentially varying effects on pathogen transmission in a herbivore host

    Article • Oecologia, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  11. Virulence‐driven trade‐offs in disease transmission: A meta‐analysis*

    Article • Evolution, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  12. Bayesian-based survival analysis: inferring time to death in host-pathogen interactions

    Article • Environmental and Ecological Statistics, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  13. Bottom‐up trait‐mediated indirect effects decrease pathogen transmission in a tritrophic system

    Article • Ecology, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  14. Overdispersed Spatial Patterning of Dominant Bunchgrasses in Southeastern Pine Savannas

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  15. Climate change and an invasive, tropical milkweed: an ecological trap for monarch butterflies

    Article • Ecology, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  16. No appendix necessary: Fecal transplants and antibiotics can resolve Clostridium difficile infection

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  17. Cannibalism and Infectious Disease: Friends or Foes?

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2017, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  18. Plant genotype and induced defenses affect the productivity of an insect-killing obligate viral pathogen

    Article • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  19. Moving forward in circles: challenges and opportunities in modelling population cycles

    Article • Ecology Letters, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  20. The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants

    Article • Ecological Monographs, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  21. The negative effects of pathogen‐infected prey on predators: a meta‐analysis

    Article • Oikos, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  22. Quantifying demographic uncertainty: Bayesian methods for integral projection models

    Article • Ecological Monographs, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  23. Warmer temperatures increase disease transmission and outbreak intensity in a host–pathogen system

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  24. Effects of biological control on long‐term population dynamics: identifying unexpected outcomes

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  25. Population-level differences in disease transmission: A Bayesian analysis of multiple smallpox epidemics

    Article • Epidemics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  26. Induced plant defenses, host–pathogen interactions, and forest insect outbreaks

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  27. Developing Models of Disease Transmission: Insights from Ecological Studies of Insects and Their Baculoviruses

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2013, PLOS

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  28. Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology . Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics Series. By Ruth King, Byron J. T. Morgan, Olivier Gimenez, and Stephen P. Brooks. Boca Raton (Florida): CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). $79.95. xiii + 442 p...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  29. Pathogen Persistence in the Environment and Insect-Baculovirus Interactions: Disease-Density Thresholds, Epidemic Burnout, and Insect Outbreaks

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  30. Host behaviour and exposure risk in an insect–pathogen interaction

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  31. Host‐Pathogen Interactions, Insect Outbreaks, and Natural Selection for Disease Resistance

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  32. Bias in population growth rate estimation: sparse data, partial life cycle analysis and Jensen's inequality

    Article • Oikos, September 2008, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  33. Hydrology, habitat change and population demography: an individual‐based model for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2007, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  34. Uncertainty in predictions of disease spread and public health responses to bioterrorism and emerging diseases

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  35. Comparing the direct and community‐mediated effects of disturbance on plant population dynamics: flooding, herbivory and Mimulus guttatus

    Article • Journal of Ecology, April 2006, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  36. Disturbance-mediated trophic interactions and plant performance

    Article • Oecologia, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  37. THE IMPACT OF CHANGING FLOW REGIMES ON RIPARIAN VEGETATION AND THE RIPARIAN SPECIES MIMULUS GUTTATUS

    Article • Ecological Applications, December 2003, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  38. The effect of density‐dependent catastrophes on population persistence time

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, September 2003, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  39. The Endangered Species Act Petitioning Process: Successes and Failures

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, July 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  40. The Problems and Potential of Count-Based Population Viability Analyses

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  41. The Scientific Foundations of Habitat Conservation Plans: a Quantitative Assessment

    Article • Conservation Biology, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Bret D. Elderd, Dr Eric L Walters

  42. Green Revolutions

    Article • Science, February 1999, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Bret D. Elderd

  43. Social constraints on the onset of incubation in a neotropical parrot: a nestbox addition experiment

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Bret D. Elderd