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1. Parasites in ecological communities
: from interactions to ecosystems
by Hatcher, Melanie J
2011, Ecology, biodiversity and conservation, ISBN 0521718228, xv, 445
Interactions between competitors, predators and their prey have traditionally been viewed as the foundation of community structure. Parasites – long ignored in... 
Host-parasite relationships | Biotic communities | Parasitology | Ecology | Parasites | Behavior
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2. Parasites influence cannibalistic and predatory interactions within and between native and invasive amphipods
by Mandy Bunke and Jaimie T A Dick and Melanie J Hatcher and Alison M Dunn
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, ISSN 0177-5103, 01/2019, Volume 136, Issue 1, p. 79
In Northern Ireland, the amphipods Gammarus duebeni celticus (native) and G. pulex (invasive) coexist in some places, whilst in others the native species has... 
Prey | Invasive species | Infections | Indigenous species | Parasitism | Coexistence | Conspecifics | Parasites | Predation | Cannibalism
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3. Parasites and biological invasions: parallels, interactions, and control: Special Issue: Wildlife Parasitology
by Dunn, Alison M and Hatcher, Melanie J
Trends in Parasitology, ISSN 1471-4922, 05/2015, Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 189 - 199
Species distributions are changing at an unprecedented rate owing to human activity. We examine how two key processes of redistribution - biological invasion... 
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4. Full Text Host‐parasitoid relationships within figs of an invasive fig tree: a fig wasp community structured by gall size
by Compton, Stephen G and Chen, Xiao‐Yong and Chen, Yan and Hatcher, Melanie J and Peng, Yan‐Qiong and Quinnell, Rupert J and Rodriguez, Lillian J and Yu, Hui and Ouyang, Ao and Wei, Fang‐Lu and Cai, Zhe‐Ting and Wang, Rong and Schonrogge, Karsten
Insect Conservation and Diversity, ISSN 1752-458X, 07/2018, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 341 - 351
Revealing the host specificity of the predators/parasitoids of invasive species is a prerequisite when assessing the suitability of biocontrol agents, while... 
parasitoid | Ficus | food web | fig wasps | gall size | host range | Biocontrol | PLANT INVASIONS | MUTUALISM | ENTOMOLOGY | INDICATE | SEEDS | POLLINATORS | ECOLOGY | Wasps | Pests | Analysis | Biological control | Introduced species | Invasive species | Predators | Spatial distribution | Host specificity | Host-parasite interactions | Food webs | Indigenous species | Sexual reproduction | Galls | Natural enemies
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5. Full Text Parasites and biological invasions: parallels, interactions, and control
by Dunn, Alison M and Hatcher, Melanie J
Trends in Parasitology, ISSN 1471-4922, 2014, Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 189 - 199
Highlights • Biological invasions and wildlife disease are inextricably linked. • Emerging diseases and invasions share similar processes and often coincide. •... 
Infectious Disease | Gastroenterology and Hepatology | emerging infectious disease | wildlife disease | spillover | invasion | Wildlife disease | Spillover | Emerging infectious disease | Invasion | SPECIES-DIVERSITY | PLANT | EMERGENCE | FOOD WEBS | FUNGAL | DISEASE | DYNAMICS | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | IMPACTS | RISK-ASSESSMENT | PARASITOLOGY | Policy | Parasites - physiology | Parasitic Diseases, Animal - transmission | Animals | Parasitic Diseases, Animal - prevention & control | Ecosystem | Risk Factors | Animals, Wild - parasitology | Introduced Species | Host-Parasite Interactions | Zoonoses
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6. Full Text Diverse effects of parasites in ecosystems: linking interdependent processes
by Hatcher, Melanie J and Dick, Jaimie TA and Dunn, Alison M
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, ISSN 1540-9295, 05/2012, Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 186 - 194
Community ecologists generally recognize the importance of species - such as pollinators - that have clear positive effects within ecosystems. However,... 
REVIEWS | Synecology | Ecosystems | Species extinction | Trophic relationships | Parasitism | Food webs | Parasites | Biodiversity | Species | Parasite hosts | HOSTS | INFECTIOUS-DISEASE | PREDATION | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | FOOD-WEB | FUNGAL | ECOLOGY | COMMUNITIES | IMPACTS | EXTINCTION | PATHOGENS
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7. Predator cue studies reveal strong trait-mediated effects in communities despite variation in experimental designs
by Rachel A Paterson and Daniel W Pritchard and Jaimie TA Dick and Mhairi E Alexander and Melanie J Hatcher and Alison M Dunn
Animal Behaviour, ISSN 0003-3472, 12/2013, Volume 86, Issue 6, p. 1301
  Nonconsumptive or trait-mediated effects of predators on their prey often outweigh density-mediated interactions where predators consume prey. For instance,... 
Morphology | Fish | Behavioral biology | Predation | Meta-analysis
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8. Full Text Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species
by Dick, Jaimie T.A and Laverty, Ciaran and Lennon, Jack J and Barrios‐O'Neill, Daniel and Mensink, Paul J and Robert Britton, J and Médoc, Vincent and Boets, Pieter and Alexander, Mhairi E and Taylor, Nigel G and Dunn, Alison M and Hatcher, Melanie J and Rosewarne, Paula J and Crookes, Steven and MacIsaac, Hugh J and Xu, Meng and Ricciardi, Anthony and Wasserman, Ryan J and Ellender, Bruce R and Weyl, Olaf L.F and Lucy, Frances E and Banks, Peter B and Dodd, Jennifer A and MacNeil, Calum and Penk, Marcin R and Aldridge, David C and Caffrey, Joseph M and Souza, Lara
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 08/2017, Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 1259 - 1267
Summary Predictions of the identities and ecological impacts of invasive alien species are critical for risk assessment, but presently we lack universal and... 
risk assessment | invasive alien species | relative impact potential metric | numerical response | species abundance | ecological impacts | functional response | prediction | taxonomic and trophic groups | maximum feeding rate | BIOLOGICAL INVADERS | FOOD-WEB | BODY-SIZE | GAMMARUS-PULEX | AMPHIPOD | GREAT-BRITAIN | PREDATOR | PREY NAIVETE | MACROINVERTEBRATES | ECOLOGY | FUNCTIONAL-RESPONSES | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | Impact prediction | Populations | Taxonomy | Abundance | Plants (organisms) | Ecological risk assessment | Ecological effects | Predators | Risk assessment | Scientists | Herbivores | Per capita | Species
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9. Full Text How parasites affect interactions between competitors and predators
by Hatcher, Melanie J and Dick, Jaimie T. A and Dunn, Alison M
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 11/2006, Volume 9, Issue 11, pp. 1253 - 1271
We present a synthesis of empirical and theoretical work investigating how parasites influence competitive and predatory interactions between other species. We... 
parasite‐mediated interactions | coexistence | predator | indirect effect | competitor | parasite‐modified interactions | Parasite | intraguild predation | reservoir | community module | Competitor | Community module | Indirect effect | Parasite-modified interactions | Reservoir | Parasite-mediated interactions | Coexistence | Predator | Intraguild predation | parasite-mediated interactions | APPARENT COMPETITION | PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS | GAMMARUS-PULEX | SPECIES COEXISTENCE | MEDIATED COMPETITION | parasite | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | INFECTIOUS-DISEASES | parasite-modified interactions | ECOLOGY | BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL | POPULATION-DYNAMICS | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Animals | Host-Parasite Interactions | Ecosystem
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10. Full Text Advancing impact prediction and hypothesis testing in invasion ecology using a comparative functional response approach
by Dick, Jaimie T. A and Alexander, Mhairi E and Jeschke, Jonathan M and Ricciardi, Anthony and MacIsaac, Hugh J and Robinson, Tamara B and Kumschick, Sabrina and Weyl, Olaf L. F and Dunn, Alison M and Hatcher, Melanie J and Paterson, Rachel A and Farnsworth, Keith D and Richardson, David M
Biological Invasions, ISSN 1387-3547, 4/2014, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 735 - 753
Invasion ecology urgently requires predictive methodologies that can forecast the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and potential invasive species. We... 
Invasion hypotheses | Impact prediction | Biological control | Freshwater & Marine Ecology | Predator–prey | Ecology | Enemy release | Biotic resistance | Life Sciences | Invasive species | Context-dependency | Species-trait comparisons | Risk assessment | Global change | Parasitism | Developmental Biology | Plant Sciences | Type II and III functional responses | Resource use | Population stability and viability | Predator-prey | CONCEPTUAL-FRAMEWORK | ASIAN SHORE CRAB | NATIVE PREDATORS | HEMIGRAPSUS-SANGUINEUS | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | CARCINUS-MAENAS | BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS | FORAGING BEHAVIOR | POPULATION BIOLOGY | INTRODUCED CRAB | ECOLOGY | Case studies | Usage | Pests | Comparative analysis | Ecosystems | Hypothesis testing | Nonnative species
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11. Full Text Disease emergence and invasions
by Melanie J. Hatcher and Jaimie T. A. Dick and Alison M. Dunn
Functional Ecology, ISSN 0269-8463, 12/2012, Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 1275 - 1287
1. Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are recognized as having significant social, economic and ecological costs, threatening human health, food security,... 
Invasive species | Disease transmission | Ecological genetics | SPECIAL FEATURE: INVASIONS AND INFECTIONS | Parasitic diseases | Ecological invasion | Biological invasions | Parasites | Human ecology | Emerging diseases | Parasite hosts | emerging infectious disease | parasite | host jump | host switch | parasite‐mediated | world's worst invaders | introduced species | invasive species | World's worst invaders | Introduced species | Host jump | Emerging infectious disease | Parasite-mediated | Parasite | Host switch | PARASITES | CLIMATE-CHANGE | parasite-mediated | INFECTIOUS-DISEASE | ORIGINS | EVOLUTION | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | WILDLIFE | IMPACTS | PATHOGENS | Wildlife conservation | Food supply | Analysis | Medical care, Cost of | Disease | Invasions | Anthropogenic factors
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12. Full Text Indirect effects of parasites in invasions
by Alison M. Dunn and Mark E. Torchin and Melanie J. Hatcher and Peter M. Kotanen and Dana M. Blumenthal and James E. Byers and Courtney A.C. Coon and Victor M. Frankel and Robert D. Holt and Ruth A. Hufbauer and Andrew R. Kanarek and Kristina A. Schierenbeck and Lorne M. Wolfe and Sarah E. Perkins
Functional Ecology, ISSN 0269-8463, 12/2012, Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 1262 - 1274
1. Introduced species disrupt native communities and biodiversity worldwide. Parasitic infections (and at times, their absence) are thought to be a key... 
Synecology | Ecological genetics | SPECIAL FEATURE: INVASIONS AND INFECTIONS | Ecological competition | Ecological invasion | Trophic relationships | Biological invasions | Ecology | Parasites | Human ecology | Parasite hosts | parasitic infection | density‐mediated indirect effect | trait‐mediated indirect effect | biological invasion | indirect effect | Parasitic infection | Biological invasion | Indirect effect | Trait-mediated indirect effect | Density-mediated indirect effect | trait-mediated indirect effect | PHORID FLY PARASITOIDS | MEDIATED INTERACTIONS | COMPETITIVE ABILITY | HOST-PLANT | EVOLUTION | INTRAGUILD PREDATION | DISEASE | TOXOPLASMA-GONDII | NEGLECTED CONCEPT | ECOLOGY | density-mediated indirect effect | PATHOGENS | Parasitic diseases | Ecosystems | Invasions
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