Risk in Changing Ecosystems

Environmental change can alter species interactions, ecosystem health, and disease risk. This theme brings together projects on freshwater systems, invasive species, restoration, plastic pollution, temperature, and schistosomiasis transmission.

Host-informed disease risk mapping

Using host ecology and uncertainty modeling to improve predictions of schistosomiasis risk.

Tags: infectious disease · spatial modeling · uncertainty · survey design

Invasive crayfish and disease-host ecology

Examining how a novel predator may alter snail host populations and overlap with disease transmission landscapes.

Tags: invasive species · predator–prey · freshwater systems · impact assessment

Prawn restoration and infection outcomes

Testing whether ecological restoration can support human health by changing freshwater host communities and infection outcomes.

Tags: restoration · intervention evaluation · One Health · public health

Trash as habitat for disease hosts

Investigating whether anthropogenic debris creates habitat for freshwater snail hosts and changes local disease ecology.

Tags: plastic pollution · habitat change · community ecology · environmental health