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9785
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3842
National Ranking
263

Overview

Susan J. Kutz is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 57 publications. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Small Animals, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and General Health Professions.

The scholar's work covers a diverse array of topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Marine Animal Studies, and Helminth Infection and Control.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Lisa-Marie Leclerc, Fabien Mavrot, Juliette Di Francesco, Matilde Tomaselli, and Mathieu Pruvot. Their publications appear predominantly in certain journals known for their focus on wildlife and ecological studies.

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Wildlife Diseases
  • International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Scientific Reports
  • ARCTIC

Significant publications include:

  • Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Implications of Zoonoses From Hunting and Use of Wildlife in North American Arctic and Boreal Biomes: Pandemic Potential, Monitoring, and Mitigation, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Linking co-monitoring to co-management: bringing together local, traditional, and scientific knowledge in a wildlife status assessment framework, 2020, Arctic Science
  • Adaptations, life-history traits and ecological mechanisms of parasites to survive extremes and environmental unpredictability in the face of climate change, 2020, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Range expansion of muskox lungworms track rapid arctic warming: implications for geographic colonization under climate forcing, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

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

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

  • Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

    Eric Post;Uma S. Bhatt;Cecilia M. Bitz;Jedediah F. Brodie

  • Global warming is changing the dynamics of Arctic host–parasite systems

    S. J. Kutz;Eric P. Hoberg;L. Polley;E. J. Jenkins

  • The Arctic as a model for anticipating, preventing, and mitigating climate change impacts on host-parasite interactions.

    Susan J. Kutz;Emily J. Jenkins;Alasdair M. Veitch;Julie Ducrocq

  • Crossing the interspecies barrier: opening the door to zoonotic pathogens.

    Christian Gortazar;Leslie A. Reperant;Thijs Kuiken;José de la Fuente;José de la Fuente

  • "Emerging" parasitic infections in arctic ungulates.

    Susan J. Kutz;Eric P. Hoberg;John Nagy;Lydden Polley

  • Parasite Zoonoses and Wildlife: Emerging Issues

    R.C. Andrew Thompson;Susan J Kutz;Andrew Dennis Smith

  • Dogs as sources and sentinels of parasites in humans and wildlife, northern Canada.

    Amanda L. Salb;Herman W. Barkema;Brett T. Elkin;R.C. Andrew Thompson

  • Metabolic approaches to understanding climate change impacts on seasonal host-macroparasite dynamics

    Péter K. Molnár;Susan J. Kutz;Bryanne M. Hoar;Andrew P. Dobson;Andrew P. Dobson

  • The potential impact of climate change on infectious diseases of Arctic fauna

    Michael J. Bradley;Susan J. Kutz;Emily Jenkins;Todd M. O’Hara

  • Northern host-parasite assemblages: history and biogeography on the borderlands of episodic climate and environmental transition.

    Eric P. Hoberg;Kurt E. Galbreath;Joseph A. Cook;Susan J. Kutz

  • Parasite prevalence in fecal samples from shelter dogs and cats across the Canadian provinces.

    Alain Villeneuve;Lydden Polley;Emily Jenkins;Janna Schurer

  • Integrated Approaches and Empirical Models for Investigation of Parasitic Diseases in Northern Wildlife

    Eric P. Hoberg;Lydden Polley;Emily J. Jenkins;Susan J. Kutz

  • “Two-eyed seeing” supports wildlife health

    Susan Kutz;Matilde Tomaselli;Matilde Tomaselli

  • Parasites in ungulates of Arctic North America and Greenland: a view of contemporary diversity, ecology, and impact in a world under change.

    Susan J Kutz;Julie Ducrocq;Guilherme G Verocai;Bryanne M Hoar

  • Fostering Community-Based Wildlife Health Monitoring and Research in the Canadian North

    Ryan K. Brook;Susan J. Kutz;Alasdair M. Veitch;Richard A. Popko

  • Invasion, establishment, and range expansion of two parasitic nematodes in the Canadian Arctic

    Susan J. Kutz;Sylvia Checkley;Guilherme G. Verocai;Mathieu Dumond

  • Echinococcus multilocularis in urban coyotes, Alberta, Canada.

    Stefano Catalano;Manigandan Lejeune;Stefano Liccioli;Guilherme G. Verocai

  • Beringia: Intercontinental exchange and diversification of high latitude mammals and their parasites during the Pliocene and Quaternary

    Joseph A. Cook;Eric P. Hoberg;Anson Koehler;Heikki Henttonen

  • Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Ina Vandebroek;Andrea Pieroni;John Richard Stepp;Natalia Hanazaki

  • Climate change and the epidemiology of protostrongylid nematodes in northern ecosystems: Parelaphostrongylus odocoilei and Protostrongylus stilesi in Dall's sheep ( Ovis d. dalli ).

    E. J. Jenkins;A. M. Veitch;S. J. Kutz;E. P. Hoberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric P. Hoberg
Eric P. Hoberg United States Department of Agriculture
Karin Orsel
Karin Orsel University of Calgary
Guilherme G. Verocai
Guilherme G. Verocai Texas A&M University
Emily J. Jenkins
Emily J. Jenkins University of Saskatchewan
Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl
Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl University of Calgary
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Joseph A. Cook
Joseph A. Cook University of New Mexico
Steeve D. Côté
Steeve D. Côté Université Laval
John S. Gilleard
John S. Gilleard University of Calgary
Pádraig J. Duignan
Pádraig J. Duignan University of Calgary

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