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Overview

Paul C. Cross is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research centers on environmental science and medicine, with a particular focus on ecology and related subfields such as agronomy and crop science, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics include wildlife ecology and conservation, animal disease management and epidemiology, zoonotic diseases and public health, rangeland and wildlife management, viral infections and vectors, primate behavior and ecology, and studies on animal ecology and behavior.

Some of the recent published papers by Paul C. Cross highlight various aspects of wildlife diseases and epidemiology. These include:

  • Sarcoptic mange: An emerging panzootic in wildlife, 2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace-of-life, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Natural history of a bighorn sheep pneumonia epizootic: Source of infection, course of disease, and pathogen clearance, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Sustaining Transmission in Different Host Species: The Emblematic Case of Sarcoptes scabiei, 2021, BioScience

Frequent co-authors in their work include Eric K. Cole, Ellen E. Brandell, Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Peter J. Hudson, each collaborating on multiple projects.

Paul C. Cross publishes regularly in several scientific venues, showing a concentration in ecological and applied environmental research. These venues include:

  • Ecological Applications
  • Ecosphere
  • Scientific Investigations Report
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

    Elizabeth M.H. Wellington;Alistair B.A. Boxall;Paul Cross;Edward J. Feil

  • LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions

    Wayne M. Getz;Wayne M. Getz;Scott Fortmann-Roe;Paul C. Cross;Andrew J. Lyons

  • Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease

    James O. Lloyd-Smith;Paul C. Cross;Paul C. Cross;Cheryl J. Briggs;Matt Daugherty

  • Testing the assertion that ‘local food is best’: the challenges of an evidence-based approach

    Gareth Edwards-Jones;Llorenç Milà i Canals;Natalia Hounsome;Monica Truninger

  • Wildlife tuberculosis in South African conservation areas: implications and challenges.

    A.L. Michel;Roy G. Bengis;D.F. Keet;M. Hofmeyr

  • Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection

    Mafalda Viana;Rebecca Mancy;Roman Biek;Sarah Cleaveland

  • REVIEW: Nutrient stripping: the global disparity between food security and soil nutrient stocks

    Davey L. Jones;Paul Cross;Paul J. A. Withers;Thomas H. DeLuca

  • Duelling timescales of host movement and disease recovery determine invasion of disease in structured populations

    Paul C. Cross;Paul C. Cross;James O. Lloyd-Smith;Philip L. F. Johnson;Wayne M. Getz;Wayne M. Getz

  • Modeling routes of chronic wasting disease transmission: environmental prion persistence promotes deer population decline and extinction

    Emily S. Almberg;Emily S. Almberg;Paul C. Cross;Christopher J. Johnson;Dennis M. Heisey

  • Unraveling the disease consequences and mechanisms of modular structure in animal social networks.

    Pratha Sah;Stephan T. Leu;Paul C. Cross;Peter J. Hudson

  • Integrating association data and disease dynamics in a social ungulate: Bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo in the Kruger National Park

    Paul C. Cross;James O. Lloyd-Smith;Justin A. Bowers;Craig T. Hay

  • Genomics reveals historic and contemporary transmission dynamics of a bacterial disease among wildlife and livestock

    Pauline L. Kamath;Jeffrey T. Foster;Kevin P. Drees;Gordon Luikart

  • Effects of management and climate on elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

    Paul C. Cross;Paul C. Cross;William H. Edwards;Brandon M. Scurlock;Eric J. Maichak

  • Disentangling association patterns in fission–fusion societies using African buffalo as an example

    Paul C. Cross;James O. Lloyd-Smith;Wayne M. Getz

  • Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover

    Susanne H. Sokolow;Susanne H. Sokolow;Nicole Nova;Kim M. Pepin;Alison J. Peel

  • ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN AFRICAN BUFFALO HERDS

    Alexandre Caron;Paul C. Cross;Paul C. Cross;Johan T. Du Toit

  • Probable causes of increasing brucellosis in free-ranging elk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

    P. C. Cross;E. K. Cole;A. P. Dobson;W. H. Edwards

  • Taming wildlife disease: bridging the gap between science and management

    Maxwell B. Joseph;Joseph R. Mihaljevic;Ana Lisette Arellano;Jordan G. Kueneman

  • Using logistic regression to analyze the sensitivity of PVA models : A comparison of methods based on African wild dog models

    Paul C. Cross;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Parasite invasion following host reintroduction: a case study of Yellowstone's wolves

    Emily S. Almberg;Paul C. Cross;Andrew P. Dobson;Douglas W. Smith

  • COMMENTARY Disentangling association patterns in fission-fusion societies using African buffalo as an example

    Paul C. Cross;James O. Lloyd-Smith;W Ayne M. Getz

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Peter J. Hudson
Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University
Gareth Edwards-Jones
Gareth Edwards-Jones Bangor University
Douglas W. Smith
Douglas W. Smith National Park Service
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
James O. Lloyd-Smith
James O. Lloyd-Smith University of California, Los Angeles
Davey L. Jones
Davey L. Jones Bangor University
Thomas E. Besser
Thomas E. Besser Washington State University
Gordon Luikart
Gordon Luikart University of Montana
Andrea Petróczi
Andrea Petróczi Kingston University

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