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Daniel R. Brooks

Daniel R. Brooks

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
66
Citations
17395
World Ranking
1677
National Ranking
103

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Daniel R. Brooks is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to research on infectious diseases, public health, and evolutionary sciences. Their work spans several interdisciplinary fields including public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology and political science, history and philosophy of science, agronomy and crop science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics include:

  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Animal disease management and epidemiology
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Evolution and genetic dynamics
  • Evolutionary game theory and cooperation
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Philosophy and history of science

Among the recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Daniel R. Brooks are:

  • Emerging infectious disease: An underappreciated area of strategic concern for food security, 2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Food security and emerging infectious disease: risk assessment and risk management, 2022, Royal Society Open Science
  • Before The Pandemic Ends: Making Sure This Never Happens Again, 2020, World Complexity Science Academy Journal
  • Ecological super-spreaders drive host-range oscillations: Omicron and risk space for emerging infectious disease, 2022, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Stepping-stones and Mediators of Pandemic Expansion-A Context for Humans as Ecological Super-spreaders, 2022, MANTER Journal of Parasite Biodiversity

Frequent coauthors working alongside Daniel R. Brooks include Salvatore J. Agosta, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, Valeria Trivellone, and Aida R. Barbera.

Their research has been published in various venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • MANTER Journal of Parasite Biodiversity
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Bioarchaeology International
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Daniel R. Brooks has also published books through well-known academic publishers. Titles include The Major Metaphors of Evolution (2020, Springer International Publishing) and A Darwinian Survival Guide (2024, The MIT Press).

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Phylogeny, ecology and behavior: A research program in comparative biology

    Daniel R. Brooks;Deborah A. McLennan

  • Phylogeny, ecology, and behavior

    Melissa Luckow;Daniel R. Brooks;Deborah A. McLennan

  • The Compleat Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures

    E. O. Wiley;D. Siegel-Causey;D. R. Brooks;Vicki Ann Funk

  • Parascript: Parasites and the Language of Evolution,

    Daniel R. Brooks;Deborah A. McLennan

  • Evolution as entropy: Toward a unified theory of biology

    Daniel R. Brooks;E. O. Wiley

  • How will global climate change affect parasite-host assemblages?

    Daniel R. Brooks;Eric P. Hoberg

  • Hennig's Parasitological Method: A Proposed Solution

    Daniel R. Brooks

  • A macroevolutionary mosaic: episodic host-switching, geographical colonization and diversification in complex host-parasite systems

    Eric P. Hoberg;Daniel R. Brooks

  • The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

    Daniel R. Brooks;Deborah A. McLennan

  • Evolution in action: climate change, biodiversity dynamics and emerging infectious disease.

    Eric P. Hoberg;Daniel R. Brooks

  • Parsimony Analysis in Historical Biogeography and Coevolution: Methodological and Theoretical Update

    Daniel R. Brooks

  • Testing the Context and Extent of Host-Parasite Coevolution

    Daniel R. Brooks

  • HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: A NEW APPROACH TO STUDYING THE EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS

    Daniel R. Brooks

  • Advances in cladistics

    D. R. Brooks;V. A. Funk;Norman I. Platnick

  • How specialists can be generalists: resolving the “parasite paradox” and implications for emerging infectious disease

    Salvatore J. Agosta;Niklas Janz;Daniel R. Brooks

  • Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting

    Sabrina B. L. Araujo;Mariana Pires Braga;Daniel R. Brooks;Salvatore J. Agosta

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Cercomeria) with comments on their adaptive radiation

    Daniel R. Brooks;Richard T. O'Grady;David R. Glen

  • Triage for the biosphere : The need and rationale for taxonomic inventories and phylogenetic studies of parasites

    D. R. Brooks;E. P. Hoberg

  • The evolution of individuality: by Leo W. Buss, Princeton University Press, 1987. £25.10/$40.00 hbk, £8.10/$12.95 pbk (xv + 201 pages) ISBN 0 691 08468 8 hbk/0 691 08469 6 pbk

    Daniel R. Brooks

  • Evolutionary Biology of Parasites.

    Daniel R. Brooks;Peter W. Price

  • Parascript: Parasites and the Language of Evolution.

    J. B. Whitfield;Daniel R. Brooks;Deborah A. McLennan

  • Phylogenetics, The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics

    Daniel R. Brooks;E. O. Wiley

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric P. Hoberg
Eric P. Hoberg United States Department of Agriculture
Walter A. Boeger
Walter A. Boeger Federal University of Paraná
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León National Autonomous University of Mexico
Vicki A. Funk
Vicki A. Funk National Museum of Natural History
David C. Evans
David C. Evans Royal Ontario Museum
Sören Nylin
Sören Nylin Stockholm University
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University
Robin M. Overstreet
Robin M. Overstreet University of Southern Mississippi
Vasyl V. Tkach
Vasyl V. Tkach University of North Dakota
Scott Lyell Gardner
Scott Lyell Gardner University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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