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., 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.
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.
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. Study system pros and cons.
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

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