Co-extinction in a host-parasite network: identifying key hosts for network stability

Co-extinction in a host-parasite network: identifying key hosts for network stability

In natural ecosystems where parasites infect multiple host species, the dynamics of the hosts and parasites are entangled in ways that are not always obvious….

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Potential global distribution of Chytrid fungus

Potential global distribution of Chytrid fungus

A second blog post from Tad Dallas’s internship at Vertica has been posted at their website. Read here to see how Tad used HP Vertica and…

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Species diversity and big data

Species diversity and big data

In summer 2015, graduate student Tad Dallas completed an internship with Vertica looking at big data problems in species distribution model. For an overview see his blog…

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TEDxUGA: What Jenga can teach us about epidemics

TEDxUGA: What Jenga can teach us about epidemics

John’s TEDxUGA talk “The Tipping Point: What Jenga Can Teach Us About Epidemics” has been posted to YouTube.  According to the Athens Banner Herald, it was…

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Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

Which animal species are the most likely carriers of future emerging diseases? New research led by Barbara Han (also involving JP Schmidt, Sarah Bowden, and…

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Factors influencing the detectability of early warning signals of population collapse

Factors influencing the detectability of early warning signals of population collapse

Early warning signals of critical transitions arise due to critical slowing down as a dynamical system approaches a tipping point. Extinction of a biological population…

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Range bagging: a new method for ecological niche modeling from presence-only data

Range bagging: a new method for ecological niche modeling from presence-only data

Ecological niche modeling concerns the task of identifying the environmental conditions under which species persist. Niche modeling — and the mapping of species distributions it…

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News coverage of REU Site and Ebola research

News coverage of REU Site and Ebola research

Grady Newsource reporter Mikhaela Singleton spoke with Laura Alexander, John Drake and others about research on Ebola and the Population Biology of Infectious Diseases REU…

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Modeling the spread and control of Ebola in West Africa

Modeling the spread and control of Ebola in West Africa

A workshop on Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in West Africa was held at the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech on…

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UPDATE: Projected spread of White-nose Syndrome

UPDATE: Projected spread of White-nose Syndrome

Sean Maher has updated our model for the spread of White-nose Syndrome in the United States. The revised model was fit to data on the timing…

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