Publications

2023

  • Gray M.J., Ossiboff R.J., Berger L, Bletz M.C., Carter E.D., DeMarchi J.A., Grayfer L., Lesbarrères D., Malagon D.A., Martel A., Miller D.L., Pasmans F., Skerratt L.F., Towe A.E., Wilber M.Q. 2023. One Health Approach to Globalizing, Accelerating, and Focusing Amphibian and Reptile Disease Research-Reflections and Opinions from the First Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference. Emerging Infectious Disease, 29, 1-7 link

  • Sheley, W.C., Cray, C., Wilber, M. Q., Carter, E. D., Kumar, Rajeev, Hardman, R. H., Towe, A. E., Gray, M. J., Miller, D. L. A Pilot Study Investigating Plasma Protein Electrophoresis in One Anuran and Six Urodelan Species. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, In press.

  • Gray, M. J, Carter, E. D., Piovia-Scott, J., Cusaac, J. P. W, Peterson, A. C., Whetstone, R. D., Hertz, A., Muniz-Torres, A. Y., Bletz, M. C., Woodhams, D. C., Romansic, J. M., Sutton, W. B., Sheley, W., Pessier, A., McCusker, C. D., Wilber, M. Q., Miller, D. L. 2023. Broad host susceptibility of North American amphibian species to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans suggests high invasion potential and biodiversity risk. Nature Communications 14, 3270 link

  • Yang, A., Wilber, M. Q., Manlove, K., Miller, R., Boughton, R., Beasley, J., Northrup, J., Vercauteren, K., Wittemyer, G., Pepin, K. Deriving spatially explicit direct and indirect interaction networks from animal movement data. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9774 link

  • Sheley, W.C., Gray, M. J., Wilber, M. Q., Cray, C., Carter, E. D., Miller, D. L. 2023. Electrolyte Imbalances and Dehydration Play a Key Role in Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Chytridiomycosis. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, 1055153 link

2022

  • Wilber, M. Q., Knapp, R. A., Smith, T. C., Briggs, C. J. 2022. Host density has limited effects on pathogen invasion, disease-induced declines, and within-host infection dynamics across a landscape of disease. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 2451-2464 link

  • Tompros, A., Wilber, M. Q., Fenton, A., Carter, E. D., Gray, M. J. 2022. Efficacy of plant-derived fungicides at inhibiting Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans growth. Journal of Fungi, 8, 1025 link

  • Olson, D. H., Gray, M. J., Pasmans, F., Grayer, L., Wilber, M. Q., Carter, E., D., Cunningham, A. A. 2022. The rising tide of herpetological disease science and management. Herpetological Review, in press

  • Silk, M. J., Wilber, M. Q., Fefferman, N. H. Capturing complex interactions in disease ecology with simplicial sets. 2022. Ecology Letters, in press link

  • Wilber, M. Q., DeMarchi, J., Fefferman, N. H., Silk, M. J. 2022. High prevalence does not necessarily equal maintenance species: Avoiding biased claims of disease reservoirs when using surveillance data. Journal of Animal Ecology, 103, e3759 link

  • Manlove, K. R., Wilber, M. Q., White, L., Bastille-Rousseau, G., Yang, A., Gilbertson, M. L. J., Craft, M. E., Cross, P. C., Wittemyer, G, Pepin, K. M. 2022. Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace-of-life. Ecology Letters, 25, 1760-1782 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Ohmer, M. E. B., Altman, K. A., Brannelly, L. A., LeSage, E. H., LaBumbard, B. C., McDonnell, N. B., Muñiz Torres, A. Y., Nordheim, C. L., Pfab, F., Richards-Zawacki, C. L., Rollins-Smith, L. A., Saenz, V., Voyles, J., Wetzel, D. P., Woodhams, D. C., and Briggs, Cheryl J. 2022. Once a reservoir, always a reservoir? Seasonality affects the pathogen maintenance potential of amphibian hosts. Ecology, 103, e3759 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Yang, A., Boughton, R., Manlove, K. R., Miller, R. S., Pepin, K. M., Wittemyer, G. 2022. A model for leveraging animal movement to understand spatio-temporal disease dynamics. Ecology Letters, 25, 1290-1304 link

  • Tompros, A., Dean, A. D., Fenton, A., Wilber, M. Q., Carter, E. D., Gray, M. J. 2022. Frequency‐dependent transmission of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in eastern newts. Transboundary and Emerging Disease, 69, 731-741 link

2021

  • Wilber, M. Q., Pfab, Ferdinand, Ohmer, M. E., Briggs, C. J. 2021. Integrating infection intensity into within- and between-host pathogen dynamics: implications for invasion and virulence evolution. The American Naturalist, 198, 661-677 link

  • Towe, A., Gray, M. J., Carter, E. D., Wilber, M. Q., Ossiboff, R. J., Ash, K.; Bohanon, M.; Bajo, B. A., Miller, D. L. 2021. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans can devour more than salamanders. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 57, 942-948 link

  • Valenzuela-Sánchez, A., Wilber, M. Q., Canessa, S., Bacigalupe, L., Muths, Erin, Schmidt, Benedikt, Cunningham, A., Ozgul, A., Johnson, P., Cayuela, H. 2021. Why disease ecology needs life-history theory: a host perspective. Ecology Letters, 24, 876-890 link

  • Pepin, K. M., Miller, R. S., Wilber, M. Q. 2021. A framework for surveillance of emerging pathogens at the human-animal interface: pigs and coronaviruses as a case study. Preventative Veterinary Medicine, 188, 105281 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Carter, E. D., Gray, M. J., Briggs, C. J. 2021. Putative resistance and tolerance mechanisms have little impact on disease progression for an emerging salamander pathogen. Functional Ecology, 35, 847-859 link

  • Yang, A., Schlichting, P., Wight, B., Anderson, W.. Chinn, S.; Wilber, M., Miller, R., Beasley, J.; Boughton, Raoul, Vercauteren, K., Wittemyer, G., Pepin, K. 2021. Effects of social structure and management on risk of disease establishment in wild pigs. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90, 820-833 link

2020

  • Wilber, M. Q., Briggs, C. J, Johnson, P. T. J. 2020. Disease’s hidden death toll: Using parasite aggregation patterns to quantify landscape-level host mortality in a wildlife system. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 2876-2887 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, Pieter T. J., Briggs, Cheryl J. 2020. Disease hotspots or hot species? Infection dynamics in multi-host metacommunities controlled by species identity, not source location. Ecology Letters, 23, 1201-1211 link

  • Newman, E., Wilber, M. Q., Kopper, K. E., Moritz, M. A., Falk, D. A., McKenzie, D., Harte, J. 2020. Disturbance macroecology: integrating disturbance ecology and macroecology in different-age post-fire stands of a closed-cone pine forest as a case study. Ecosphere, 11, e03022 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Jani, A. J., Mihaljevic, J. R., and Briggs, C. J. 2020. Fungal infection alters the selection, dispersal, and drift processes structuring the amphibian skin microbiome. Ecology Letters, 23, 88-98 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Pedersen, K., Wan, X., Webb, C. T., and Pepin, K. M. 2020. Inferring seasonal disease risk at population and regional scales from serology samples. Ecology, 101, e02882 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Chinn, S. M., Beasley, J. C., Boughton, R. K., Brook, R. K. Ditchkoff, S. S., Fischer, J. W. Hartley, S. B., Holmstrom, L. K., Kilgo, J. C., Lewis, J. S., Miller, R. S., Snow, N. P., VerCauteren, K. C., Wisely, S. M., Webb, C. T., Pepin, K. M. 2020. Predicting functional responses in agro-ecosystems from animal movement data to improve management of invasive pests. Ecological Applications, 30, e02015 link

2019

  • Pepin, K. M., Pedersen K., Wan, X., Cunningham, F. L., Webb C. T., Wilber, M. Q. 2019. Individual-level antibody dynamics reveal potential drivers of influenza A seasonality in wild pig populations. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 1, 1-12 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Pepin, K. M, Campa III, Henry, Hygnstrom, Scott E, Lavelle, Michael J, Xifara, T., VerCauteren, K. C, Webb, C. T. 2019. Modeling multi-species and multi-mode contact networks: implications for persistence of bovine tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock interface. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56: 1471–1481 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, P. J., and Briggs, C. J. 2019. When chytrid fungus invades: Integrating theory and data to understand disease-induced amphibian declines. Chapter in Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application eds. A. Fenton, D. Tompkins, and K. Wilson, Cambridge University Press. link

2018

  • Murdoch, William M., Chu, Fang-I, Stewart-Oaten, Allan, Wilber, M. Q.. 2018. Improving wellbeing and reducing future world population. PloS One. 13: e0202851. link

2017

  • Johnson, P. T. J. and Wilber, M. Q. 2017. Biological and statistical processes jointly drive population aggregation: using host-parasite interactions to understand Taylor’s power law. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 2084: 20171388 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Knapp, R. A., Toothman, M., Briggs, C. J. 2017. Resistance, tolerance and environmental transmission dynamics determine host extinction risk in a load-dependent amphibian disease. Ecology Letters, 20: 1169-1181 link

  • Adams, A. J., Kuperberg, S. J., Wilber, M. Q., Grefsurd, M., Bobzien, S., Vredenburg, V. T., and Briggs, C. J. 2017. Drought, host density, sex, and bullfrogs influence fungal pathogen infection in a declining lotic amphibian. Ecosphere, 8: e01740 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Johnson, P. T. J., and Briggs, C. J. 2017. When can we infer mechanism from parasite aggregation? A constraint-based approach to disease ecology. Ecology, 98: 688-702 link

2016

  • Wilber, M. Q., Langwig, K., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, McCallum, Hamish I., and Briggs, C. J. 2016. Integral Projection Models for host-parasite systems with an application to amphibian chytrid fungus. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7: 1182-1194 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Weinstein, S., and Briggs, C. J. 2016. Detecting and quantifying parasite-induced host mortality from intensity data: Method comparisons and limitations. International Journal for Parasitology, 46: 59-66 link

2015

  • Kitzes, J and Wilber, M. Q.. 2015. macroeco: Reproducible ecological pattern analysis in Python. Ecography, 39: 361-367 link

  • Wilber, M. Q., Kitzes, J., and Harte, J. 2015. Scale collapse and the emergence of the power law species-area relationship. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 883-895 link

  • Langwig, K., Voyles, J., Wilber, M. Q., Bolker, B., Blehert, D., Briggs, C., Cheng, T., Collins, J., Fisher, M., Frick, W., Kilpatrick, M., Linder, D., McCallum, H., Murray, K., Puschedorf, R., Rosenblum, E. B., Toothman, M. 2015. Context dependent conservation responses to wildlife disease. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13: 195-202 link

  • Voyles, J., Bolker, B., Blehert, D., Briggs, C., Cheng, T., Collins, J., Fisher, M., Frick, W., Kilpatrick, M., Langwig, K., Linder, D., McCallum, H., Murray, K., Puschedorf, R., Rosenblum, E. B., Toothman, M., and Wilber, M. Q. 2014. Moving beyond too little too late: Managing emerging infectious diseases in wild populations requires international policy and partnerships. EcoHealth, 12: 404-407 link

2014

  • Newman, E., Harte, M. E., Lowell, N., Wilber, M. Q., Harte, J. 2014. Empirical tests of within- and across-species energetics in a diverse plant community. Ecology, 95: 2815-2825. link