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2020 – 2023 Continue Reading EAGER: Collaborative Research: Rapid Production of Geospatial Network Inputs for Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Modeling of COVID-19 in the USA
Hopkins SR, Hazel A, Pourtois JD, Chamberlin AJ, Gajewski Z, Harryman I, Sokolow SH, MacDonald AJ, Nova N, Ahmad A, Andiani J, Emerson A, Febriani N, Finley NL, Izza Q, Miller A, Sartika I, Webb K, Burza S, Siregar IZ, Setiawan Y, Jones I, Yung-Chun Liu Z, De Leo GA. (2027). Pandemic impacts on protected rainforests and rural communities with variable health and livelihood support in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: a mixed-methods approach combining household surveys and remote sensing. The Lancet. Planetary health
Couper LI, Sipin TJ, Sambado S, Rennie Z, Shanebeck KM, Lyberger KP, Collender PPA, Ngo V, Remais JV, MacDonald AJ. (2026). Dengue transmission risk in California under climate and land-use change: a semi-mechanistic modelling study. Lancet regional health. Americas, (60)
Sambado S, Sparkman A, Swei A, MacDonald AJ, Young HS, Salomon J, Crews A, Ring K, Copeland S, Briggs CJ. (2025). Climate-driven variation in the phenology of juvenile Ixodes pacificus on lizard hosts. Parasites & vectors, 18(1)
Sambado S, Sipin TJ, Rennie Z, Larsen A, Cunningham J, Quandt A, Sousa D, MacDonald AJ. (2025). The paradoxical impact of drought on West Nile virus risk: insights from long-term ecological data. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 292(2054)
MacDonald AJ, Sipin TJ, Ring K. (2025). Spillover risk for yellow fever virus is amplified by forest-urban interface in the Amazon. Biology letters, 21(12)
Lee B, Sambado S, Farrant DN, Boser A, Ring K, Hyon D, Larsen AE, MacDonald AJ. (2025). Novel Bat-Monitoring Dataset Reveals Targeted Foraging With Agricultural and Pest Control Implications. Ecology and evolution, 15(1)
Sambado S, Sparkman A, Swei A, MacDonald AJ, Young HS, Salomon J, Crews A, Ring K, Copeland S, Briggs CJ. (2024). Climate-driven variation in the phenology of juvenile Ixodes pacificus on lizard hosts. Research square
Singleton AL, Lescano AG, MacDonald AJ, Mandle L, Sipin TJ, Martel KS, Munayco CV, Carrera EDR, Choque GA, Bautista ASM, Luby SP, Mordecai EA. (2024). Highway paving dramatically increased dengue transmission in the Amazon. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Skinner EB, Glidden CK, MacDonald AJ, Mordecai EA. (2023). Human footprint is associated with shifts in the assemblages of major vector-borne diseases. Nature sustainability, 6(6)
Hopkins SR, Lafferty KD, Wood CL, Olson SH, Buck JC, De Leo GA, Fiorella KJ, Fornberg JL, Garchitorena A, Jones IJ, Kuris AM, Kwong LH, LeBoa C, Leon AE, Lund AJ, MacDonald AJ, Metz DCG, Nova N, Peel AJ, Remais JV, Stewart Merrill TE, Wilson M, Bonds MH, Dobson AP, Lopez Carr D, Howard ME, Mandle L, Sokolow SH. (2022). Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win-win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. The Lancet. Planetary health, 6(8)
Sokolow SH, Nova N, Jones IJ, Wood CL, Lafferty KD, Garchitorena A, Hopkins SR, Lund AJ, MacDonald AJ, LeBoa C, Peel AJ, Mordecai EA, Howard ME, Buck JC, Lopez-Carr D, Barry M, Bonds MH, De Leo GA. (2022). Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis. The Lancet. Planetary health, 6(11)
Hopkins SR, Jones IJ, Buck JC, LeBoa C, Kwong LH, Jacobsen K, Rickards C, Lund AJ, Nova N, MacDonald AJ, Lambert-Peck M, De Leo GA, Sokolow SH. (2022). Environmental Persistence of the World's Most Burdensome Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Frontiers in public health, (10)
Athni TS, Shocket MS, Couper LI, Nova N, Caldwell IR, Caldwell JM, Childress JN, Childs ML, De Leo GA, Kirk DG, MacDonald AJ, Olivarius K, Pickel DG, Roberts SO, Winokur OC, Young HS, Cheng J, Grant EA, Kurzner PM, Kyaw S, Lin BJ, Lopez RC, Massihpour DS, Olsen EC, Roache M, Ruiz A, Schultz EA, Shafat M, Spencer RL, Bharti N, Mordecai EA. (2021). The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms. Ecology letters
MacDonald AJ, Mordecai EA. (2021). Response to Valle and Zorello Laporta: Clarifying the Use of Instrumental Variable Methods to Understand the Effects of Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Transmission. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Jones IJ, MacDonald AJ, Hopkins SR, Lund AJ, Liu ZY, Fawzi NI, Purba MP, Fankhauser K, Chamberlin AJ, Nirmala M, Blundell AG, Emerson A, Jennings J, Gaffikin L, Barry M, Lopez-Carr D, Webb K, De Leo GA, Sokolow SH. (2020). Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(45)
MacDonald AJ, Weinstein SB, O'Connor KE, Swei A. (2020). Circulation of Tick-Borne Spirochetes in Tick and Small Mammal Communities in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Journal of medical entomology, 57(4)
MacDonald AJ, McComb S, O'Neill C, Padgett KA, Larsen AE. (2020). Projected climate and land use change alter western blacklegged tick phenology, seasonal host-seeking suitability and human encounter risk in California. Global change biology, 26(10)
Nova N, Deyle ER, Shocket MS, MacDonald AJ, Childs ML, Rypdal M, Sugihara G, Mordecai EA. (2020). Susceptible host availability modulates climate effects on dengue dynamics. Ecology letters
Couper LI, MacDonald AJ, Mordecai EA. (2020). Impact of prior and projected climate change on US Lyme disease incidence. Global change biology
MacDonald AJ, Mordecai EA. (2019). Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(44)
MacDonald AJ. (2018). Abiotic and habitat drivers of tick vector abundance, diversity, phenology and human encounter risk in southern California. PloS one, 13(7)
MacDonald AJ, Hyon DW, Brewington JB 3rd., O'Connor KE, Swei A, Briggs CJ. (2017). Lyme disease risk in southern California: abiotic and environmental drivers of Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) density and infection prevalence with Borrelia burgdorferi. Parasites & vectors, 10(1)
MacDonald AJ, Briggs CJ. (2016). Truncated seasonal activity patterns of the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in central and southern California. Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 7(1)
Larsen AE, MacDonald AJ, Plantinga AJ. (2014). Lyme disease risk influences human settlement in the wildland-urban interface: evidence from a longitudinal analysis of counties in the northeastern United States. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 91(4)
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