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Johannes Foufopoulos is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their research topics cover diverse elements of wildlife and disease ecology, including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Johannes Foufopoulos has authored multiple papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Past connections with the mainland structure patterns of insular species richness in a continental-shelf archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)" (2021, Ecology and Evolution)
  • "More and bigger lizards reside on islands with more resources" (2022, Journal of Zoology)
  • "Rapid and repeated divergence of animal chemical signals in an island introduction experiment" (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • "Infectious disease as a driver of declines and extinctions" (2024, Cambridge Prisms Extinction)
  • "Dilution of Epidemic Potential of Environmentally Transmitted Infectious Diseases for Species with Partially Overlapping Habitats" (2021, The American Naturalist)

The scientist has co-authored work with multiple collaborators, frequently working with Hamish McCallum, Gary A. Wobeser, Panayiotis Pafilis, Kinsey M. Brock, and Colin M. Donihue.

Publication venues in which they have published repeatedly include:

  • Animals
  • Diversity
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Zoology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Johannes Foufopoulos has also contributed to book publications, notably with Oxford University Press. One of their books is titled Infectious Disease Ecology and Conservation, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

    J. A. Patz;P. Daszak;G. M. Tabor;A. A. Aguirre

  • Emerging infectious pathogens of wildlife

    A. Dobson;J. Foufopoulos

  • Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species

    Martin Wikelski;Johannes Foufopoulos;Hernan Vargas;Howard Snell

  • Reptile Extinctions on Land-Bridge Islands: Life-History Attributes and Vulnerability to Extinction.

    Johannes Foufopoulos;Anthony R. Ives

  • Costs of plasticity: responses to desiccation decrease post-metamorphic immune function in a pond-breeding amphibian

    Stephanie S. Gervasi;Johannes Foufopoulos

  • Immunological investments reflect parasite abundance in island populations of Darwin's finches

    Karin M. Lindström;Johannes Foufopoulos;Henrik Pärn;Martin Wikelski

  • Intraspecific competition and high food availability are associated with insular gigantism in a lizard

    Panayiotis Pafilis;Shai Meiri;Johannes Foufopoulos;Efstratios Valakos

  • Evolution of antipredator behavior in an island lizard species, Podarcis erhardii (Reptilia: Lacertidae): The sum of all fears?

    Kinsey M. Brock;Peter A. Bednekoff;Panayiotis Pafilis;Johannes Foufopoulos

  • Tail shedding in island lizards [Lacertidae, Reptilia]: decline of antipredator defenses in relaxed predation environments.

    Panayiotis Pafilis;Johannes Foufopoulos;Nikos Poulakakis;Petros Lymberakis

  • Climate Change and Elevated Extinction Rates of Reptiles from Mediterranean Islands

    Johannes Foufopoulos;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Anthony R. Ives

  • MITES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SMALL GROUND FINCH, GEOSPIZA FULIGINOSA (PASSERIFORMES: EMBERIZIDAE), FROM THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS

    Barry M. OConnor;Johannes Foufopoulos;David Lipton;Karin Lindström;Karin Lindström

  • Parasite-mediated heterozygote advantage in an outbred songbird population.

    Elizabeth A MacDougall-Shackleton;Elizabeth P Derryberry;Elizabeth P Derryberry;Johannes Foufopoulos;Johannes Foufopoulos;Andrew P Dobson

  • Bottle or big-scale studies: how do we do ecology?

    Anthony R. Ives;Johannes Foufopoulos;Eric D. Klopfer;Jennifer L. Klug

  • Functionally opposing effects of testosterone on two different types of parasite: implications for the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis

    Matthew J. Fuxjager;Johannes Foufopoulos;Johannes Foufopoulos;Ramon Diaz-Uriarte;Catherine A. Marler

  • Digestive performance in five Mediterranean lizard species: effects of temperature and insularity

    P. Pafilis;J. Foufopoulos;N. Poulakakis;P. Lymberakis

  • Feed or fight: testing the impact of food availability and intraspecific aggression on the functional ecology of an island lizard

    Colin M. Donihue;Kinsey M. Brock;Johannes Foufopoulos;Anthony Herrel;Anthony Herrel

  • Effects of fragmentation on genetic diversity in island populations of the Aegean wall lizard Podarcis erhardii (Lacertidae, Reptilia).

    H. Hurston;L. Voith;J. Bonanno;J. Foufopoulos

  • Reproductive Biology of Insular Reptiles: Marine Subsidies Modulate Expression of the ''Island Syndrome''

    Panayiotis Pafilis;Johannes Foufopoulos;Kostas Sagonas;Anna Runemark

  • Fencing protected areas: A long-term assessment of the effects of reserve establishment and fencing on African mammalian diversity

    Aimee L. Massey;Aimee L. Massey;Aaron A. King;Johannes Foufopoulos

  • The Effect of Hemosporidian Infections on White-Crowned Sparrow Singing Behavior

    Sarah Gilman;Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel T. Blumstein;Johannes Foufopoulos;Johannes Foufopoulos

  • Population dynamics: New approaches and synthesis: edited by N. Cappuccino and P. W. Price Academic Press, 1995. £555.00/$74.95 hbk (xxi + 429 pages) ISBN 0 12 159270 7

    A.R. Ives;J. Foufopoulos;E.D. Klopfer;J.L. Mug

Frequent Co-Authors

Panayiotis Pafilis
Panayiotis Pafilis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Anthony Herrel
Anthony Herrel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Anthony R. Ives
Anthony R. Ives University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Petros Lymberakis
Petros Lymberakis University of Crete

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