Publications
Svatos, E. C., L. P. Falke and D. L. Preston. 2023. Disturbance and disease: host-parasite interactions in freshwater streams remain stable following wildfire. Oecologia.
Preston, D. L., J. L. Trujillo, M. P. Fairchild, R. R. Morrison, K. D. Fausch, and Y. Kanno. 2023. Short-term effects of wildfire on high elevation stream-riparian food webs. Oikos 2023: e09828.
Trovillion, D. C, E. L. Sauer, G. Shay, E. Crone and D. L. Preston. 2023. Habitat complexity, connectivity, and introduced fish drive pond community structure along an urban to rural gradient. Ecological Applications 2023: e2828.
Crone, E. R., E. L. Sauer and D. L. Preston. 2023. Nonnative fish facilitate nonnative snails and alter food web structure in experimental pond communities. Functional Ecology 37: 947-958.
Snyder P.W., C. T. Ramsay, C. C. Harjoe, E. S. Khazan, C. J. Briggs, J. T. Hoverman, P. T. J. Johnson, D. L. Preston, J. R. Rohr, and A. R. Blaustein. 2023. Experimental evidence that host species composition alters host-pathogen dynamics in a Ranavirus-amphibian assemblage. Ecology 104: e3885.
Miller-ter Kuile, A. Apigo, A. Bui, K. Butner, J. N. Childress, S. Copeland, B. DiFiore, E. Forbes, M. Klope, C. I. Motta, D. Orr, K. Plummer, D. L. Preston, H. Young. 2022. Changes in invertebrate food web structure between high- and low-productivity environments are driven by intermediate but not top predator diet shifts. Biology Letters 18: 20220364.
Sauer, E. L., E. R. Crone, C. Lewis, E. Plumier, B. Cwynar, D. Drake, B. M. Herrick and D. L. Preston. 2022. Multiscale drivers of amphibian community occupancy in urban ponds. Urban Ecosystems. 25: 1469-1479.
Crone, E. R., E. L. Sauer, B. M. Herrick, D. Drake and D. L. Preston. 2022. Effects of invasive jumping worms on microhabitat and trophic interactions of native herpetofauna. Biological Invasions 24: 2499-2512.
Koltz, A. M., D. J. Civitello, D. J. Becker, S. L. Deem, A. T. Classen, B. Barton, M. Brenn-White, Z. E. Johnson, S. Kutz, M. Malishev, D. L. Preston, T. J. Vannatta, R. M. Penczykowski and V. O. Ezenwa. 2022. Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems. PNAS 119: e2117381119.
Falke, L. P. and D. L. Preston. 2022. Freshwater disease hotspots: drivers of fine-scale spatial heterogeneity in trematode parasitism in streams. Freshwater Biology.
Preston, D. L., E. R. Crone, A. Miller-ter Kuile, C. D. Lewis, E. L. Sauer and D. C. Trovillion. 2022. Nonnative freshwater snails: A global synthesis of invasion status, mechanisms of introduction, and interactions with natural enemies. Freshwater Biology.
Miller-ter Kuile, A. Apigo, A. Buil, B. DiFiore, E. Forbes, M. Lee, D. Orr, D. L. Preston, R. Behm, T. Bogar, J. Childress, R. Dirzo, M. Klope, K. Lafferty, J. McLaughlin, M. Morse, C. Motta, K. Park, K. Plummer, D. Weber, R. Young, H. Young. 2022. Predator-prey interactions of terrestrial invertebrates are determined by predator body size and species identity. Ecology.
Preston, D. L. and R. W. Lamb. 2021. Effects of trout aquaculture on water chemistry of tropical montane streams in Ecuador. River Research and Applications 37: 1562-1566.
Ezenwa, V. O., D. J. Civitello, A. T. Classen, B. T. Barton, D. J. Becker, M. Brenn-White, S. L. Deem, S. Kutz, M. Malishev, R. M. Penczykowski, D. L. Preston, J. T. Vannatta and A. M. Kolz. 2021. Response to Charlier et al.: Climate-disease feedbacks mediated by livestock methane emissions are plausible. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 578-579.
Falke, L. P. and D. L. Preston. 2021. Infection prevalence and density of a pathogenic trematode parasite decrease with stream order along a river continuum. Ecosphere 12: e03670.
Iwaniec, D. M., et al. (+27 co-authors). 2021. Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: the importance of connectivity in space and time to ecosystem dynamics. Ecosphere 12: e03432.
Preston, D. L., T. J. Layden, L. M. Segui, L. Falke, S. Brant and M. Novak. 2021. Trematode parasites exceed aquatic insect biomass in Oregon stream food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology 90: 766-775.
Ezenwa, V. O., D. J. Civitello, B. T. Barton, D. J. Becker, M. Brenn-White, A. T. Classen, S. L. Deem, Z. E. Johnson, S. Kutz, M. Malishev, R. M. Penczykowski, D. L. Preston, J. T. Vannatta and A. M. Kolz. 2020. Infectious diseases, livestock and methane: an impending vicious cycle? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35: 959-962.
Li, S., H. Wei, L. Vilizzi, J. D. Olden, D. L. Preston, S. Clarke, B. Cudmore, G. D. Davis, A. Zhan and G. H. Copp. 2020. The future of legislation, policy, risk analysis, and management of non-native freshwater fishes in China. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture.
Preston, D. L. and E. L. Sauer. 2020. Infection pathology and competition mediate host biomass overcompensation from disease. Ecology 101: e03000.
Hart, S. J. and D. L. Preston. 2020. Fire weather drives daily area burned and observations of fire behavior in mountain pine beetle affected landscapes. Environmental Research Letters 15: 054007.
Falke, L. P., J. S. Henderson, M. Novak, and D. L. Preston. 2020. Temporal shifts in interspecific and intraspecific diet variation among three stream predators. Freshwater Science 39: 115-125.
Preston, D. L., E. R. Sokol, K. Hell, D. M. McKnight and P. T. J. Johnson. 2020. Experimental effects of elevated temperature and nitrogen deposition on high elevation aquatic communities. Aquatic Sciences 82: 7.
Preston, D. L., L. P. Falke, J. S. Henderson and M. Novak. 2019. Food web interaction strength distributions are conserved by greater variation between than within predator-prey pairs. Ecology 100: e02816.
Moser, K. A., J. S. Baron, J. Brahney, I. Olesky, J. E. Saros, E. J. Hundey, S. A. Sadro, J. Kopacek, R. Sommaruga, M. J. Kainz, A. L. Strecker, S. Chandra, D. M. Walters, D. L. Preston, N. Michelutti, F. Lepori, S. A. Spaulding, K. Christianson, J. M. Melack and J. P. Smol. 2019. Mountain lakes: eyes on global environmental change. Global and Planetary Change 178: 77-95.
Preston, D. L., J. S. Henderson, L. P. Falke, L. M. Segui, T. J. Layden and M. Novak. 2018. What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator. Ecology 99: 1591-1601.
Preston, D. L., H. D. Hedman and P. T. J. Johnson. 2018. Nutrient availability and invasive fish jointly drive community dynamics in an experimental aquatic system. Ecosphere 9: e02153.
Preston, D. L., J. S. Henderson, L. P. Falke and M. Novak. 2017. Using survival models to estimate prey identification times in predatory stream fish. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146: 1303-1314.
Preston, D. L. H. D. Hedman, E. R. Esfahani, E. M. Pena, C. E. Boland, K. B. Lunde and P. T. J. Johnson. 2017. Responses of a wetland ecosystem to the controlled introduction of invasive fish. Freshwater Biology 62: 767-778.
Preston, D. L., N. Caine, D. M. McKnight, M. W. Williams, K. Hell, M. P. Miller, S. J. Hart, P. T. J. Johnson. 2016. Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure. Geophysical Research Letters 43: 5353-5360.
Johnson, P. T. J., M. B. Joseph, D. L. Preston, S. E. Haas and Y. P. Springer. 2016. Habitat heterogeneity drives the host-diversity-begets parasite diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies. Ecology Letters 19: 752-761.
Preston, D. L., J. A. Mischler, A. R. Townsend and P. T. J. Johnson. 2016. Disease ecology meets ecosystem science. Ecosystems 19: 737-748.
Joseph, M. B., D. L. Preston and P. T. J. Johnson. 2016. Integrating occupancy models and structural equation models to understand species occurrence. Ecology 97: 765-775.
Beals, S. C., D. L. Preston, C. A. Wessman and T. R. Seastedt. 2015. Resilience of a novel ecosystem after the loss of a keystone species: plague epizootics and urban prairie dogs. Ecosphere 6:157.
Preston, D. L., P. G. Taylor, N. C. Brown and J. A. Mischler. 2015. Global change in the K-12 classroom: using the scientific process to engage students with our changing planet. Science Scope 38: 33-43.
Preston, D. L., C. E. Boland, J. T. Hoverman and P. T. J. Johnson. 2014. Natural enemy ecology: comparing the effects of predation risk, infection risk and disease on host behavior. Functional Ecology 28: 1472-1481.
Redmond, M. D., D. L. Preston and R. M. Gafney. 2014. Effects of multiple invasive species in experimental aquatic communities. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology 10: 2.
Preston, D. L., A. Z. Jacobs, S. A. Orlofske and P. T. J. Johnson. 2014. Complex life cycles in a pond food web: effects of life stage structure and parasites on network properties, trophic positions and the fit of a probabilistic niche model. Oecologia 174: 953-965.
Johnson, P. T. J., D. L. Preston, J. T. Hoverman and B. E. Lafonte. 2013. Host and parasite diversity jointly control disease risk in complex communities. PNAS 110: 16916-16921.
Thieltges, D. W., P.-A. Amundsen, R. F. Hechinger, P. T. J. Johnson, K. D. Lafferty, K. M. Mouritsen, D. L. Preston, K. Reise, C. Dieter Zander and R. Poulin. 2013. Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission. Oikos 122: 1473-1482.
Joseph, M.B., J. R. Mihaljevic, A. L. Arellano, J. G. Kueneman, D. L. Preston, P. C. Cross and P. T. J. Johnson. 2013. Taming wildlife disease: bridging the gap between science and management. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 702-712.
Preston, D. L., S. A. Orlofske, J. P. Lambden and P. T. J. Johnson. 2013. Biomass and productivity of trematode parasites in pond ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 509-517.
Johnson, P. T. J., D. L. Preston, J. T. Hoverman and K. L. D. Richgels. 2013. Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence. Nature 494: 230-234.
Preston, D. L., S. A. Orlofske, J. P. McLaughlin and P. T. J. Johnson. 2012. Food web including infectious agents for a California freshwater pond. Ecology 93: 1760-1760. (data paper).
Preston, D. L., J. S. Henderson and P. T. J. Johnson. 2012. Community ecology of invasions: direct and indirect effects of multiple invasive species on aquatic communities. Ecology 93: 1254-1261.
Orlofske, S. A., R. C. Jadin, D. L. Preston and P. T. J. Johnson. 2012. Parasite transmission in complex communities: predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians. Ecology 93: 1247-1253.
Preston, D. L. and P. T. J. Johnson. 2012. Importance of native amphibians in the diet and distribution of the Aquatic Garter Snake (Thamnophis atratus) in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Journal of Herpetology 46: 221-227.
Johnson, P. T. J., D. L. Preston, J. T. Hoverman, J. S. Henderson, S. H. Paul, K. L. D. Richgels and M. D. Redmond. 2012. Species diversity reduces parasite transmission through cross-generational effects on host abundance. Ecology 93: 56-64.
Preston, D. L., and P. T. J. Johnson. 2010. Ecological consequences of parasitism. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 39.
Preston, D. L., C. A. E. Mosley and R.T. Mason. 2010. Sources of variability in recovery time from methohexital sodium anesthesia in snakes. Copeia 2010: 496-501.
Ferrera, I., S. Longhorn, A. B. Banta, Y. Liu, D. L. Preston and A.-L. Reysenbach. 2007. Diversity of the 16s rRNA gene, ITS region and aclB gene of the Aquificales. Extremophiles 11: 57-64.