Publications

FISHERIES

Lafferty, K. D.. (2008). Ecosystem consequences of fish parasites*. Journal of Fish Biology, 73(9), 2083-2093.
Behrens, M. D., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2004). Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern Californian rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 279, 129-139.
Harvell, D., Aronson, R., Baron, N., Connell, J., Dobson, A., Ellner, S., ... & Ward, J.. (2004). The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2(7), 375-382.
Lafferty, K. D.. (2004). Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins. Ecological Applications, 14(5), 1566-1573.
Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D.. (1992). Modelling crustacean fisheries: effects of parasites on management strategies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 49(2), 327-336.
Kuris, A. M., Blau, S. F., Paul, A. J., Shields, J. D., & Wickham, D. E.. (1991). Infestation by brood symbionts and their impact on egg mortality of the red king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, in Alaska: geographic and temporal variation. Canadian journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences, 48(4), 559-568.

FOOD WEBS

Lafferty, K. D., Hopkins, S. R.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (7), 1411-1413
Kevin D Lafferty, John P McLaughlin, Daniel S Gruner, Taylor A Bogar, An Bui, Jasmine N Childress, Magaly Espinoza, Elizabeth S Forbes, Cora A Johnston, Maggie Klope, Ana Miller-ter Kuile, Michelle Lee, Katherine A Plummer, David A Weber, Ronald T Young, Hillary S Young. Biology letters 14 (2), 20170743
Lafferty, KD. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48, 473-496
Lorda, J., Hechinger, R.F., Cooper, S.D., Kuris, A.M., Lafferty, K.D.. (2016). Intraguild predation by shore crabs affects mortality, behavior, growth, and densities of California horn snails. Ecosphere, 7
Strona, G., Lafferty, K.D. . (2016). Environmental change makes robust ecological networks fragile. Nature Communications, 7
K. D. Lafferty, G. DeLeo, C. J. Briggs, A. P. Dobson, Thilo Gross, Armand M. Kuris. K. D. Lafferty, G. DeLeo, C. J. Briggs, A. P. Dobson, Thilo Gross, Armand M. Kuris 2015.  A general consumer-resource population model.  Science 349:854-857.
K. D. Lafferty, G. DeLeo, C. J. Briggs, A. P. Dobson, T. Gross, A. M. Kuris. See Lafferty et al. 2015 Science
Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., McLaughlin, J. P., Fredensborg, B. L., Huspeni, T. C., Lorda, J., ... & Kuris, A. M.. (2011). Food webs including parasites, biomass, body sizes, and life stages for three California/Baja California estuaries: Ecological Archives E092-066. Ecology, 92(3), 791-791.
Rudolf, V. H. W., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2011). Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks. Ecology letters, 14(1), 75-79.
Johnson, P. T., Dobson, A., Lafferty, K. D., Marcogliese, D. J., Memmott, J., Orlofske, S. A., ... & Thieltges, D. W.. (2010). When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25(6), 362-371.
Amundsen, P. A., Lafferty, K. D., Knudsen, R., Primicerio, R., Klemetsen, A., & Kuris, A. M.. (2009). Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78(3), 563-572.
Dobson, A., Allesina, S., Lafferty, K., & Pascual, M.. (2009). The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1524), 1803-1806.
Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (2009). Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snail. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1524), 1659-1663.
Lafferty, K. D., Ostfeld, R. S., Keesing, F., & Eviner, V. T. . (2008). Effects of disease on community interactions and food web structure. Infectious disease ecology: the effect of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems (eds RS Ostfeld, F. Keesing & VT Eviner), 205-222.
Lafferty, K. D., Allesina, S., Arim, M., Briggs, C. J., De Leo, G., Dobson, A. P., ... & Thieltges, D. W.. (2008). Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecology letters, 11(6), 533-546.
Dobson, A. P., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (2006). Parasites and food webs. Ecological networks: linking structure to dynamics in food webs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 119-135.
Lafferty, K. D., Dobson, A. P., & Kuris, A. M.. (2006). Parasites dominate food web links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(30), 11211-11216.
Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Shaw, J. C., Whitney, K. L., & Kuris, A. M. . (2006). Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics, 119-134.
Warren, C., Pascual, M., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (2005). Parasitic Networks on Food Webs: Clustering, Nestedness and the Inverted Niche Model. Unpublished paper (in preparation).
Hudson, P. J., Dobson, A. P., & Lafferty, K. D. . (2006). Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(7), 381-385.
Kaplan, A. T., Rebhal, S., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (2009). Small estuarine fishes feed on large trematode cercariae: lab and field investigations. Journal of Parasitology, 95(2), 477-480.

HOW TO BE A SCIENTIST

Kuris, A. M.. 2016. Thoughts on how I write a letter of recommendation
Kuris, A.M. Lafferty, K.D.. 2016.  When do I get my PhD?
Lafferty, K.D.. 2016. A graduate student's guide to vacation
Lafferty, K.D.. A thesis proposal outline
Lafferty, K.D.. 2016. How to give a scientific presentation.  Informal dvice to graduate students series.
Lafferty, K.D.. 2016. Writing a scientific paper, step by painful step
Lafferty, K. D.. 2016. Study system pros and cons.

INVASION BIOLOGY

Blakeslee, A. M., Keogh, C. L., Byers, J. E., Kuris, A. M., Lafferty, K. D., & Torchin, M. E.. (2009). Differential escape from parasites by two competing introduced crabs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 393, 83-96.
Torchin, M. E., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2009). Escape from parasites. In Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems (pp. 203-214). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Perkins, S. E., Altizer, S., Bjornstad, O., Burdon, J. J., Clay, K., Gómez-Aparicio, L., ... & Uriarte, M.. (2008). Invasion biology and parasitic infections. Infectious disease ecology: Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems, 179-204.
Kuris, A. M., Goddard, J. H., Torchin, M. E., Murphy, N., Gurney, R., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2007). An experimental evaluation of host specificity: the role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs. International journal for parasitology, 37(5), 539-545.
Ruiz, G. M., Lorda, J., Arnwine, A., & Lion, K.. (2006). Chapter II Shipping Patterns Associated with the Panama Canal: Effects on Biotic Exchange?. In Bridging Divides (pp. 113-126). Springer Netherlands.
Goddard, J. H., Torchin, M. E., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2005). Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California. Biological Invasions, 7(6), 895-912.
Lafferty, K. D., Smith, K. F., Torchin, M. E., Dobson, A. P., & Kuris, A. M.. (2005). The role of infectious disease in natural communities: what introduced species tell us.
Torchin, M. E., Hechinger, R. F., Huspeni, T. C., Whitney, K. L., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2005). The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa. Biological Invasions, 7(4), 607-614.
. Kuris AM. 2003. Did biological control cause extinction of the coconut moth, Levuana iridescens, in Fiji? Biological invasions 5:133-141.
Torchin, M. E., Lafferty, K. D., Dobson, A. P., McKenzie, V. J., & Kuris, A. M.. (2003). Introduced species and their missing parasites. Nature, 421(6923), 628-630.
Torchin, M. E., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. . (2002). Parasites and marine invasions. Parasitology, 124(07), 137-151.
Torchin, M. E., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (2001). Release from parasites as natural enemies: increased performance of a globally introduced marine crab. Biological Invasions, 3(4), 333-345.
Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M.. (1996). Biological control of marine pests. Ecology, 1989-2000.

PARASITE BIOLOGY

DP Benesh, KD Lafferty, A Kuris. Ecology 98 (3), 882-882
Víctor Manuel Vidal-Martínez, Lilia Catherinne Soler-Jimenez, Ma Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo, John Mclaughlin, Alejandra G Jaramillo, Jenny C Shaw, Anna James, Ryan F Hechinger, Armand M Kuris, Kevin D Lafferty. Zookeys 713:1