Fletcher Halliday
Disease Ecology. Biodiversity. Global Change.
PI of the Disease Ecology and Diversity Lab at Oregon State University agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecology/
- Preprint alert! The epidemiology of wild–crop interfaces: Integrating ecology, evolution, and management through modeling - www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/abs/10.3...
- Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...
- In a few weeks, we'll be publishing the finding that [redacted] people die every year because of climate change, equivalent to a loss of $[redacted]T USD, every year. Here's what it costs us to open that publication to you. We have no federal grants for that work, and can't apply for them.
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- I think most journals allow green open access, though some might require an embargo. If it’s AAAS, then you should be good to go www.science.org/do/10.5555/s...
- As a special Earth Day gift, our new paper integrating decades of related, but siloed research on how changing biodiversity drives plant disease and herbivory is out today in TREE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting our sConsume working group!
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View full threadHopefully this paper can serve as a starting point for advancing a synthesis of biodiversity-consumer relationships across consumer groups and taxonomic divides, but this synthesis is far from complete.
- Similar conceptual unification could improve our understanding of plant defense and host quality, plant functional composition, leaf damage versus consumer abundance and impacts, host specialization, global change, and interactions between herbivores and pathogens.
- But then we started to notice some key similarities among these hypotheses. Despite differences in life histories, terminology, direction, and magnitude, these hypotheses seem to share at least one of five non-exclusive fundamental factors mediating the impact of biodiversity on consumer damage.
- In the paper, we organize these five fundamental factors in the form of a causal model. This model allows us to then explore similarities and differences between responses of pathogens and herbivores to altered biodiversity, and to make suggestions for future research.
- Pathogens and herbivores differ in key life history characteristics, and we expected that these might drive differences in terminology, patterns, and hypotheses in the published literature.
- First, we organized published hypotheses linking changing diversity to consumer damage across consumer groups - this was a big task! Not surprisingly, there are a lot of hypotheses (>20) and they differ in terminology across consumer groups. I left this exercise feeling quite overwhelmed.
- Last winter, @suzeveringham.bsky.social, Max Bröcher, @ebelingae.bsky.social, @annekempel.bsky.social, Fabiane Mundim, Alex Strauss, @zoexiro.bsky.social, Mayank Kohli, and I got together to try and reconcile differences between research studying biodiversity's effects on herbivory and disease
- Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
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- Interested in field ecology, genomics, and infectious diseases? Want to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? Then this job might be for you! We will start reviewing applications on 22 November and hope to have the position filled by the new year.
- Together with @aaronliston.bsky.social we are recruiting a full-time lab technician to support our research labs at Oregon State University. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/161... Closing date is 11/22, but we will continue to recruit until the position is filled.
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- A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges. Sounds like Global Ecology ! sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread ! go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴at://did:plc:ppsghcl5bbpgjcljnhra353s/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lali4hzwwh2v
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- Together with @aaronliston.bsky.social we are recruiting a full-time lab technician to support our research labs at Oregon State University. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/161... Closing date is 11/22, but we will continue to recruit until the position is filled.
- What an honor to be part of this new synthesis paper on priority effects. Priority effects are everywhere, but research on them remains incredibly siloed. Here’s our first attempt to reduce barriers between disciplines. Read the article for free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1inWTcZ3X0...
- Join me!! Our department is looking to hire two(!) new assistant professors: (1) plant-microbe interactions and (2) population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...
- My lab (blogs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...) is looking for a postdoc to study host and pathogen diversity and interactions at the interface of wild and working landscapes in Oregon! Come and join us! gradschool.oregonstate.edu/sites/gradsc...
- Ah, bad timing! The lab website just changed: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
- We have a new lab website! blogs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecology/
- Excited to share our new paper brilliantly led by Rita Grunberg exploring how fungal disease drives host community assembly: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... We applied various fungicide treatments to grasslands for three years, and found that disease reduction amplified host community variation.
