![Interconnecting Global Threats: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Infectious Diseases](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/planetary_health_slider4-470x140.png)
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the spread of infectious diseases are three major challenges for planetary health. We know from major reports such as the…
![Multiscale model of regional population decline in little brown bats due to white‐nose syndrome](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Geomyces_destructans_1-470x140.jpg)
The introduced fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes White-nose syndrome in North American bats, putting some populations at risk for extinction or extirpation. The severity of…
![Zooplankton Diversity Project](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/zooviznews_scaled-470x140.png)
The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a US Department of Energy owned facility located in South Carolina. Located within the SRS property are a series…
![Oocysts of the genus Eimeria, a group of protozoans that infect a wide range of animal species](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Eimeria-maxima-470x140.png)
Host-parasite networks are built from a vast number of interactions, which may change seasonally or based on host densities. This combination of complexity and uncertainty…
![Global patterns of zoonotic disease in mammals](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/giraffe-1-470x140.png)
The majority of infectious diseases currently emerging in humans originated in mammals. Yet we still know very little about the global patterns of mammal-to-human pathogen transmission….
![Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/marburg3-470x140.png)
Preventing future outbreaks of ebolaviruses in humans and other vulnerable animal populations will require identifying the natural reservoirs of filoviruses. Accumulating indirect evidence points to…
![Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/rodent-map-470x140.png)
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…
![Potential distribution of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) in the North American Great Lakes](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Grass_Carp-470x140.jpg)
Many species of carp are invasive in North America, accumulating large biomass, damaging benthic habitat, and disrupting native food webs. By contrast, the Grass Carp…
![Ecology of avian influenza viruses](http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/influenza-cdc-470x140.jpg)
Two new papers from our study of the ecology of avian influenza viruses are now available. The first paper, by Barton et al., derives an…