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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sonia Altizer is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on ecological and evolutionary questions.

The main subfields of study covered in their research include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Insect Science, and Ecological Modeling. Their work addresses topics related to Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Viral Infections and Vectors, and Rabies Epidemiology and Control.

Altizer's published work has appeared in several scientific journals, with frequent publications in Ecological Entomology, the Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and Molecular Ecology.

  • Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Parasite dynamics in North American monarchs predicted by host density and seasonal migratory culling, 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird, 2020, Movement Ecology
  • Temporal patterns of vampire bat rabies and host connectivity in Belize, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Richard J. Hall, Daniel J. Becker, Jacobus C. de Roode, Cecilia A. Sánchez, and Isabella G. Ragonese.

Among the recognitions, Sonia Altizer was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota

    C. Drew Harvell;Charles E. Mitchell;Charles E. Mitchell;Jessica R. Ward;Sonia Altizer;Sonia Altizer

  • Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases.

    Sonia Altizer;Andrew Dobson;Parviez Hosseini;Peter Hudson

  • Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

    Sonia Altizer;Richard S. Ostfeld;Pieter T. J. Johnson;Susan Kutz

  • Animal migration and infectious disease risk.

    Sonia Altizer;Rebecca Bartel;Barbara A. Han

  • Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseases

    Catherine A. Bradley;Sonia Altizer

  • Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

    Sonia Altizer;Charles L. Nunn;Peter H. Thrall;John L. Gittleman

  • Rapid evolutionary dynamics and disease threats to biodiversity

    Sonia Altizer;Drew Harvell;Elizabeth Friedle

  • Infectious diseases in primates: behavior, ecology and evolution.

    Charles L. Nunn;Sonia M. Altizer

  • Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates.

    Charles L. Nunn;Sonia Altizer;Kate E. Jones;Wes Sechrest

  • Infectious Diseases in Primates

    Charles Nunn;Sonia Altizer

  • Infectious Diseases and Extinction Risk in Wild Mammals

    Amy B. Pedersen;Kate E. Jones;Charles L. Nunn;Sonia M. Altizer

  • Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

    Dana M. Hawley;Sonia M. Altizer

  • Climate change and wildlife diseases: When does the host matter the most?

    Drew Harvell;Sonia Altizer;Isabella M. Cattadori;Isabella M. Cattadori;Laura Harrington

  • Linking anthropogenic resources to wildlife-pathogen dynamics: a review and meta-analysis.

    Daniel J. Becker;Daniel G. Streicker;Daniel G. Streicker;Sonia Altizer

  • Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite

    Jacobus C. de Roode;Andrew J. Yates;Sonia Altizer

  • The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration

    Shuai Zhan;Shuai Zhan;Shuai Zhan;Wei Zhang;Kristjan Niitepõld;Kristjan Niitepõld;Jeremy Hsu

  • Parasites hinder monarch butterfly flight: implications for disease spread in migratory hosts

    Catherine A. Bradley;Sonia Altizer

  • Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: implications for transmission and control

    Daniel G. Streicker;Daniel G. Streicker;Sergio Recuenco;William Valderrama;Jorge Gomez Benavides

  • Associations between host migration and the prevalence of a protozoan parasite in natural populations of adult monarch butterflies

    Sonia M. Altizer;Karen S. Oberhauser;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Viruses of the Serengeti: Patterns of infection and mortality in African lions

    Craig Packer;S Altizer;Max J Appel;E Brown

  • Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

    Sonia Altizer;Charles Nunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Becker
Daniel J. Becker University of Oklahoma
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Andrew K. Davis
Andrew K. Davis University of Georgia
Karen S. Oberhauser
Karen S. Oberhauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vanessa O. Ezenwa
Vanessa O. Ezenwa Yale University
M. Brock Fenton
M. Brock Fenton University of Western Ontario
Nancy B. Simmons
Nancy B. Simmons American Museum of Natural History
Peter H. Thrall
Peter H. Thrall Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association

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