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Overview

Winifred F. Frick is affiliated with Bat Conservation International in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the biology and ecology of bats, with significant contributions to understanding viral infections, species distribution, and the impact of zoonotic diseases on wildlife.

Their publication record includes works across multiple fields of study, notably Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine. Within these, key subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Infectious Diseases, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

Main topics explored in their work cover:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview

Frick has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Conservation Biology
  • Biological Conservation
  • Scientific Reports

They have collaborated often with colleagues such as Tina L. Cheng, M. Teague O'Mara, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Nancy B. Simmons, and Jonathan D. Reichard.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Frick include:

  • The scope and severity of white-nose syndrome on hibernating bats in North America (2021), Conservation Biology
  • Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats (2020), PLoS Pathogens
  • Environmental reservoir dynamics predict global infection patterns and population impacts for the fungal disease white-nose syndrome (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics (2024), Nature Communications
  • Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19 (2020), Animal Conservation

Best Publications

  • An emerging disease causes regional population collapse of a common North American bat species.

    Winifred F. Frick;Winifred F. Frick;Jacob F. Pollock;Alan C. Hicks;Kate E. Langwig;Kate E. Langwig

  • A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

    Winifred F. Frick;Winifred F. Frick;Tigga Kingston;Jon Flanders;Jon Flanders

  • Sociality, density-dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white-nose syndrome.

    Kate E. Langwig;Kate E. Langwig;Winifred F. Frick;Jason T. Bried;Alan C. Hicks

  • Disease alters macroecological patterns of North American bats

    Winifred F. Frick;Sébastien J. Puechmaille;Joseph R. Hoyt;Barry A. Nickel

  • Fatalities at wind turbines may threaten population viability of a migratory bat

    W.F. Frick;W.F. Frick;E.F. Baerwald;J.F. Pollock;R.M.R. Barclay

  • Influence of climate and reproductive timing on demography of little brown myotis Myotis lucifugus.

    Winifred F. Frick;D. Scott Reynolds;Thomas H. Kunz

  • Host and pathogen ecology drive the seasonal dynamics of a fungal disease, white-nose syndrome

    Kate E. Langwig;Winifred F. Frick;Rick Reynolds;Katy L. Parise

  • The scope and severity of white-nose syndrome on hibernating bats in North America

    Tina L. Cheng;Jonathan D. Reichard;Jeremy T. H. Coleman;Theodore J. Weller

  • Context‐dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

    Kate E. Langwig;Jamie Voyles;Mark Q. Wilber;Winifred F. Frick

  • Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats.

    Kevin J. Olival;Paul M. Cryan;Brian R. Amman;Ralph S. Baric

  • Bacteria isolated from bats inhibit the growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose syndrome.

    Joseph R. Hoyt;Tina L. Cheng;Kate E. Langwig;Mallory M. Hee

  • White-Nose Syndrome in Bats

    Winifred F. Frick;Sébastien J. Puechmaille;Craig K. R. Willis

  • Resistance in persisting bat populations after white-nose syndrome invasion

    Kate E. Langwig;Joseph R. Hoyt;Katy L. Parise;Katy L. Parise;Winifred F. Frick;Winifred F. Frick

  • White-nose syndrome: is this emerging disease a threat to European bats?

    Sébastien J. Puechmaille;Winifred F. Frick;Winifred F. Frick;Thomas H. Kunz;Paul A. Racey

  • Pathogen dynamics during invasion and establishment of white-nose syndrome explain mechanisms of host persistence

    Winifred F. Frick;Winifred F. Frick;Tina L. Cheng;Kate E. Langwig;Kate E. Langwig;Joseph R. Hoyt

  • Drivers of variation in species impacts for a multi-host fungal disease of bats.

    Kate E. Langwig;Winifred F. Frick;Joseph R. Hoyt;Katy L. Parise;Katy L. Parise

  • Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Migration: Weather, Radars, and Aeroecology

    Phillip B. Chilson;Winifred F. Frick;Jeffrey F. Kelly;Kenneth W. Howard

  • Deconstructing the Bat Skin Microbiome: Influences of the Host and the Environment

    Christine V. Avena;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Jonathan W. Leff;Jonathan W. Leff;Holly M. Archer

  • Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white‐nose syndrome

    Tina L. Cheng;Tina L. Cheng;Alexander Gerson;Marianne S. Moore;Jonathan D. Reichard

  • Invasion dynamics of white-nose syndrome fungus, midwestern United States, 2012-2014.

    Kate E. Langwig;Joseph R. Hoyt;Katy L. Parise;Joe Kath

  • Climate and Weather Impact Timing of Emergence of Bats

    Winifred F. Frick;Phillip M. Stepanian;Jeffrey F. Kelly;Kenneth W. Howard

  • Long-Term Persistence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans , the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, in the Absence of Bats

    Joseph R. Hoyt;Kate E. Langwig;Joseph Okoniewski;Winifred F. Frick

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey T. Foster
Jeffrey T. Foster Northern Arizona University
A. Marm Kilpatrick
A. Marm Kilpatrick University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeffrey F. Kelly
Jeffrey F. Kelly University of Oklahoma
Thomas H. Kunz
Thomas H. Kunz Boston University
Craig K. R. Willis
Craig K. R. Willis University of Winnipeg
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
Rodrigo A. Medellín
Rodrigo A. Medellín National Autonomous University of Mexico
Kris A. Murray
Kris A. Murray Imperial College London
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Kenneth Howard
Kenneth Howard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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