Richard Ostfeld

Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks
Fischhoff, Ilya R., Felicia Keesing, Jennifer Pendleton, Deanna DePietro, Marissa Teator, Shannon Duerr, Stacy Mowry, Ashley Pfister, Shannon L. LaDeau, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks”. Journal of Medical Entomology 56 (5). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1420-27. doi:10.1093/jme/tjz077.
Ticks as Soil-Dwelling Arthropods: An Intersection Between Disease and Soil Ecology
Burtis, J. C., Joseph B. Yavitt, Timothy J. Fahey, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Ticks As Soil-Dwelling Arthropods: An Intersection Between Disease and Soil Ecology”. Edited by Howard Ginsberg. Journal of Medical Entomology 56 (6). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1555-64. doi:10.1093/jme/tjz116.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of tick-borne disease risk factors in residential yards, neighborhoods, and beyond
Fischhoff, Ilya R., Sarah E. Bowden, Felicia Keesing, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Tick-Borne Disease Risk Factors in Residential Yards, Neighborhoods, and Beyond”. BMC Infectious Diseases 19 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1186/s12879-019-4484-3.
Topic modeling of major research themes in disease ecology of mammals
Han, Barbara A., and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Topic Modeling of Major Research Themes in Disease Ecology of Mammals”. Journal of Mammalogy 100 (3). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1008-18. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyy174.
Potential effects of blood meal host on bacterial community composition in Ixodes scapularis nymphs
Landesman, W.J., Kenneth Mulder, B. F. Allan, Laura Bashor, Felicia Keesing, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Potential Effects of Blood Meal Host on Bacterial Community Composition in Ixodes Scapularis Nymphs”. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases 10 (3): 523-27. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.01.002.
Predicting larval tick burden on white-footed mice with an artificial neural network
Mowry, Stacy, Felicia Keesing, Ilya R. Fischhoff, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2019. “Predicting Larval Tick Burden on White-Footed Mice With an Artificial Neural Network”. Ecological Informatics 52: 150-58. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.04.002.
The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases
Keesing, Felicia, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2018. “The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-Borne Diseases”. Trends in Parasitology 34 (6): 447-50. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2018.02.008.
Tick-borne disease risk in a forest food web
Ostfeld, Richard S., Taal Levi, Felicia Keesing, K. Oggenfuss, and Charles D. Canham. 2018. “Tick-Borne Disease Risk in a Forest Food Web”. Ecology 99 (7): 1562-73. doi:10.1002/ecy.2386.
Tritrophic interactions between a fungal pathogen, a spider predator, and the blacklegged tick
Fischhoff, Ilya R., J. C. Burtis, Felicia Keesing, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2018. “Tritrophic Interactions Between a Fungal Pathogen, a Spider Predator, and the Blacklegged Tick”. Ecology and Evolution 8 (16): 7824-34. doi:10.1002/ece3.4271.
Variation in coexisting birds to exploit spatial heterogeneity in small mammal activity
Emmering, Quinn C., Janice K. Kelly, Richard S. Ostfeld, and Kenneth Schmidt. 2018. “Variation in Coexisting Birds to Exploit Spatial Heterogeneity in Small Mammal Activity”. Journal of Avian Biology 49 (12). doi:10.1111/jav.01946.