Tara Stewart Merrill

Publications

• Host density increases parasite recruitment but decreases host risk in a snail–trematode system
• Avian Health across the Landscape: Nestling Immunity Covaries with Changing Landcover
• Timescale reverses the relationship between host density and infection risk
• Partitioning variance in immune traits in a zooplankton host—Fungal parasite system
• Into the danger zone: How the within‐host distribution of parasites controls virulence
• Variation in Immune Defense Shapes Disease Outcomes in Laboratory and Wild Daphnia
• Parasite exposure and host susceptibility jointly drive the emergence of epidemics
• Epaulet Size and Current Condition in Red-Winged Blackbirds: Examining a Semistatic Signal, Testosterone, Immune Function, and Parasites
• Early‐life immune activation increases song complexity and alters phenotypic associations between sexual ornaments
• Sea‐level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes
• Within‐host complexity of a plankton‐parasite interaction
• Host sex and parasitism in Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus): examining potential causes of infection biases in a sexually dimorphic species
• Blurred lines between competition and parasitism
• Invisible Parasites and Their Implications for Coexisting Water Fleas
• Indirect effects in a planktonic disease system
• Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities
• Towards a mechanistic understanding of competence: a missing link in diversity–disease research
• Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum
• Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System
• It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators
• Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control
• The role of varying resources on Daphnia dentifera immune responses
• Differential gene expression in response to fungal pathogen exposure in the aquatic invertebrate, Daphnia dentifera
• Collapsed oyster populations in large Florida estuaries appear resistant to restoration using traditional cultching methods—Insights from ongoing efforts in multiple systems
• Diverging effects of host density and richness across biological scales drive diversity-disease outcomes
• Host controls of within-host disease dynamics: insight from an invertebrate system