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Felicia Keesing

Felicia Keesing

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
19130
World Ranking
2639
National Ranking
935

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Felicia Keesing is a researcher affiliated with Bard College in the United States. The primary fields of study underpinning their work include Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Genetics.

The main topics investigated in their research span Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-borne infectious diseases, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Yersinia bacterium and plague research including ectoparasites, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Some of Felicia Keesing's recent publications are:

  • Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dilution effects in disease ecology, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Recent Progress in Lyme Disease and Remaining Challenges, 2021, Frontiers in Medicine
  • Modeling COVID-19 spread in small colleges, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Effects of Tick-Control Interventions on Tick Abundance, Human Encounters with Ticks, and Incidence of Tickborne Diseases in Residential Neighborhoods, New York, USA, 2022, Emerging Infectious Diseases

The most frequent publication venues for their work include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE, Pathogens, Ecology Letters, and Frontiers in Medicine.

Frequent collaborators in their research network include Richard S. Ostfeld, Stacy Mowry, Jennifer Pendleton, Marissa Teator, and William Bremer.

In recognition of their contributions, Felicia Keesing was named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

    Felicia Keesing;Lisa K. Belden;Peter Daszak;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Effects of species diversity on disease risk.

    F. Keesing;R. D. Holt;R. S. Ostfeld

  • The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk

    Kathleen LoGiudice;Richard S. Ostfeld;Kenneth A. Schmidt;Felicia Keesing

  • Spatial epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Gregory E. Glass;Felicia Keesing

  • Pulsed resources and community dynamics of consumers in terrestrial ecosystems

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • Biodiversity and disease risk : The case of Lyme disease

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Lyme Disease Risk

    Brian F. Allan;Felicia Keesing;Richard S. Ostfeld

  • Climate, Deer, Rodents, and Acorns as Determinants of Variation in Lyme-Disease Risk

    Richard S Ostfeld;Charles D Canham;Kelly Oggenfuss;Raymond J Winchcombe

  • Biodiversity series: The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases

    Richard S Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide.

    Darcy L. Ogada;Felicia Keesing;Munir Z. Virani

  • Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases.

    Felicia Keesing;Richard S Ostfeld

  • Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

    F. Keesing;J. Brunner;S. Duerr;M. Killilea;M. Killilea

  • Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

    Pieter T. J. Johnson;Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing

  • Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya

    Felicia Keesing

  • Frontiers of Ecology

    John N. Thompson;O. J. Reichman;Peter J. Morin;Gary A. Polis

  • Infectious Disease Ecology

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing;Valerie T. Eviner

  • Cryptic Consumers and the Ecology of an African Savanna

    Felicia Keesing

  • Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

    Richard S. Ostfeld;Felicia Keesing;Valerie T. Eviner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Ostfeld
Richard S. Ostfeld Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Truman P. Young
Truman P. Young University of California, Davis
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Valerie T. Eviner
Valerie T. Eviner University of California, Davis
Taal Levi
Taal Levi Oregon State University
Jacob R. Goheen
Jacob R. Goheen University of Wyoming
Kenneth A. Schmidt
Kenneth A. Schmidt Texas Tech University
Todd M. Palmer
Todd M. Palmer University of Florida
Charles D. Canham
Charles D. Canham Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara

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