Publications

 §undergraduate author; *graduate author; post-doc author; ¥equal first authorship

2023

 Rohr, J.R., Sack, A.†, Bakhoum, S.†, Barrett, C.B., Chamberlin, A.J.*, Civitello, D.J., Doruska, M.J.*, De Leo, G.A., Haggerty, C.J.E.†, Jones, I.*, Jouanard, N., Ly, A.T, Ndione, R.A., Remais, J.V., Riveau, G., Schacht, A., Senghor, S., Sokolow, S.H., Wolfe, C*. 2023. A planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa. Nature 619: 782–787. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06313-z featured on the cover

Haggerty, C.J.E., Delius, B.*, Jouanard, N., Ndaod, P.D., De Leo, G.A., Lund, A.J., Lopez-Carr, D.,Remais, J.V., Riveau, G., Sokolow, S.H., Rohr, J.R. 2023. Pyrethroid insecticides pose greater risk than organophosphate insecticides to biocontrol agents for human schistosomiasis. Environmental Pollution 319:120952 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120952 PDF

2022

Rohr J, Bakhoum S, Barrett C, Chamberlin A, Civitello D, Doruska M, De Leo G, Haggerty CJ, Jones I, Jouanard N, Ly AT. A planetary health solution for disease, sustainability, food, water, and poverty challenges. medRxiv. 2022:2022-08 PDF

Liu, Z.Y., Chamberlin, A.J., Tallam, K., Jones, I.J., Lamore, L.L., Bauer, J., Bresciani, M., Wolfe, C.M., Casagrandi, R., Mari, L., Gatto, M., Diongue, A.K., Toure, L., Rohr, J.R., Riveau, G., Jouanard, N., Wood, C.L., Sokolow, S.H., Mandle, L., Daily, G., Lambin, E.F., De Leo, G.A. Deep learning segmentation of satellite imagery identifies aquatic vegetation associated with snail intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis in Senegal, Africa. Remote Sensing 14:1345 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061345 PDF

Haggerty, C.J.E., Halstead, N.T., Civitello, D.J., Rohr, J.R. 2022. Reducing disease and producing food: Effects of 13 agrochemicals on snail biomass and human schistosomes. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 729-741 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14087 PDF

Civitello, D.J., Angeloa, T., Nguyen, K.H., Hartman, R.B., Starkloff, N.C., Mahalila, M.P., Charles, J., Manrique, A., Delius, B., Bradley, L.M., Nisbet, R.M., Kinung’hi, S., Rohr, J.R. 2022. Transmission potential of human schistosomes can be driven by resource competition among snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119: e2116512119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116512119 PDF

Ortega, C.N.*, Roznik, E.A., Surbaugh, K.L.*, Cano, N.§, Price, W. Campbell, T., Rohr, J.R.¥; 2022. Parasite spillover to native hosts from more tolerant, supershedding invasive hosts: implications for management. Journal of Applied Ecology 59:39-51 PDF

2021

Bakhoum, S.*, Ba, C.T., Haggerty, C.J.E., Jouanard, N., Riveau, G., Rohr, J.R. 2021. Risk of human exposure to the intestinal schistosome, Schistosoma mansoni, across seasons along the Senegal River. Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Research 6:038 https://doi.org/10.24966/GHR-2566/100038 PDF

Jones, I.*, Sokolow, S., Chamberlin, A., Lund, A., Jouanard, N., Bandagny, L., Ndione, R., Senghor, S., Schacht, A., Riveau, G., Hopkins, S., Rohr, J.R., Remais, J., Lafferty, K.D., Kuris, A.M., Wood, C.L., De Leo, G. 2021. Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for S. haematobium and S. mansoni. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9: e0009712 PDF

Bakhoum, S.*, Haggerty, C.J.E., Ba, C.T., Jouanard, N., Riveau, G., Rohr, J.R. 2021. Seasonal variations of densities of Biomphalaria pfeifferi, the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni parasite at the North of Senegal. in Basic and Applied Malacology; ed. Sajal Ray. IntechOpen Limited, London https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99217 PDF

Liu, X., Rohr, J.R. ¥, Li, X., Li, Y. 2021. Climate extremes, variability and trade shape biogeographical patterns of alien species. Current Zoology 67: 393-402 https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa068 PDF

Nguyen, K.H.*, Boersch-Supan, P.H. † ¥ , Hartman, R.B*., Mendiola, S.Y*., Harwood, V.J., Civitello, D.J., Rohr, J.R. 2021. Interventions can shift the thermal optimum for parasitic disease transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118: e2017537118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017537118 PDF

Lund, A.J.*, Lopez-Carr, D., Sokolow, S.H., Rohr, J.R., DeLeo, G.A. 2021. Agricultural innovations to reduce the distributional and health impacts of dams. Sustainability 13: 1869. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041869 PDF

2020

Rohr, J.R., Cohen, J.M.Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease. PLoS Biology 18: e3000938. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000938 PDF

Cohen, J.M., Sauer, E.L.*, Santiago, O.§, Spencer, S.§, Rohr, J.R. 2020. Divergent impacts of warming weather on disease risk across climates. Science 370: eabb1702 Altmetric score of 538, 99th percentile PDF

Haggerty, C.J.E., Bakhoum, S., Civitello, D.J., De Leo, G.A., Jouanard, N., Ndione, R.A., Remais, J.V., Riveau, G., Senghor, S., Sokolow, S.H., Sow, S., Wolfe, C., Wood, C.L., Jones, I.*, Chamberlin, A.*, Rohr, J.R. 2020. Aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrate predators affect densities of snail hosts and local production of schistosome cercariae that cause human schistosomiasis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14:e0008417 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008417 PDF

Hoover, C.M.*, Rumschlag, S.L., Strgar, L., Arakala, A., Gambhir, M., de Leo, G., Sokolow, S.H., Rohr, J.R., Remais, J.V. 2020. Effects of agrochemical pollution on schistosomiasis transmission: a systematic review and modeling analysis. Lancet Planetary Health 4: e280–91 PDF

Nguyen, K.H.*, Gemmell, B.J., Rohr, J.R. 2020. Effects of temperature and viscosity on miracidial and cercarial movement of Schistosoma mansoni: Ramifications for disease transmission. International Journal of Parasitology 50: 153-159 PDF

2019

Wood, C.L., Sokolow, S., Jones, I.*, Chamberlin, A.*, Lafferty, K.D., Kuris, A.M., Jocque, M., Hopkins, S., Adams, G., Schneider, M., Buck, J.C., Lund, A., Garcia Vedrenne, A.E., Fiorenza, E. Rohr, J.R., Allan, F., Webster, B., Rabone, M., Webster, J., Bandagny, L., Ndione, R., Senghor, S., Schacht, A., Jouanard, N., Riveau, G., De Leo, G. 2019. Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116: 23182-23191 PDF

Hoover, C.M.*, Sokolow, S.H., Kemp, J., Lund, A.J.*, Jones, I.*, Higginson, T., Riveau, G., Savaya-Alkalay, A., Coyle, S., Wood, C., Micheli, F., Casagrandi, R., Mari, L., Gatto, M., Rinaldo, A., Perez, J., Rohr, J.R., Sanchirico, J.N., Sagi, A., Remais, J.V., De Leo, G.A. 2019. Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control. Nature Sustainability 2: 611-620 PDF

Rohr, J.R., Barrett, C.B., Civitello, D.J., Craft, M., Delius, B.*, de Leo, G., Hudson, P.J., Jouanard, N., Nguyen, K., Ostfeld, R., Remais, J.V., Riveau, G., Sokolow, S., Tilman, D. 2019. Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production. Nature Sustainability 2: 445-456 PDF

Bakhoum, S., Ndione, R.A., Haggerty, C.J.E., Wolfe, C., Sow, S., Ba, C.T., Riveau, G., Rohr, J.R. 2019. Influence of physicochemical parameters on the spatial distribution of snail species that are intermediate hosts of human schistosomes in the Senegal River Delta. Medicine and Tropical Health (Me´decine et Sante´ Tropicales) 29: 61-67 PDF

2018

Arakala, A. Hoover, C.M.*, Marshall, J., Sokolow, S., de Leo, G., Rohr, J.R., Remais, J.V., Gambhir, M. 2019. Estimating the elimination feasibility in the 'end game' of control efforts for parasites subjected to regular mass drug administration: Methods and their application to schistosomiasis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12: e0006794. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006794 PDF

Civitello, D.J., Fatima, H.§, Johnson, L.R., Nisbet, R.M., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Bioenergetic theory predicts infection dynamics of human schistosomes in intermediate host snails across ecological gradients. Ecology Letters 21: 692–701 PDF

Civitello, D.J., Allman, B.E.*, Morozumi, C.*, Rohr, J.R. 2018. Assessing the direct and indirect effects of food provisioning and nutrient enrichment on wildlife infectious disease dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 373: 20170101 PDF

Halstead, N.T.*, Arakala, A., Civitello, D.J., Deleo, G., Gambhir, M., Hoover, C.*, Johnson, S.A., Jouanard, N., McMahon, T.A.*, Parker, K.§, Raffel, T.R., Remais, J., Riveau, G., Sokolow, S., Rohr, J.R. 2018. Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts. Nature Communications 9: 837 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03189-w PDF

Covered in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/pesticides-could-hike-risk-catching-parasitic-worm

2017

Knutie, S.A., Wilkinson, C.L.*, Ortega, N.*, Rohr, J.R. 2017. Host resistance and tolerance of parasitic gut worms depend on resource availability. Oecologia 183: 1031-1040 PDF

Cohen, J.M.*, Venesky, M.D., Sauer, E.L.*, Civitello, D.J., McMahon, T.A., Roznik, E.A., Rohr, J.R. 2017. The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains outbreaks of an emerging infectious disease. Ecology Letters 20: 184–193 Cover Article, Featured in Nature: Sohn Hothouse of disease 543: S44–S46 PDF

2015

Civitello, D.J., Cohen, J.*, Fatima, H.§, Halstead, N.T.*, McMahon, T.A., Ortega, C.N.*, Sauer, E.*, Rohr, J.R. 2015. Reply to Salkeld et al.: Diversity-disease patterns are robust to study design, selection criteria, and publication bias. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112: E6262 http://www.pnas.org/content/112/46/E6262.full.pdf PDF

Civitello, D.J., Cohen, J.*, Fatima, H.§, Halstead, N.T.*, Liriano, J.§, McMahon, T.A., Ortega, C.N.*, Sauer, E.*, Sehgal, T.§, Young, S.*, Rohr, J.R. 2015. Biodiversity inhibits parasites: broad evidence for the dilution effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112:8667–8671 (showcased by commentaries in PNAS and Science, double star by Faculty 1000, Altmetric score of 183, 99th percentile) ISI Highly Cited PDF

Sears, B.F.*, Snyder, P.W.§, Rohr, J.R.¥ 2015. Host life-history and host-parasite syntopy predict behavioral resistance and tolerance to trematode parasites. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:625-636 (Runner-up for Best Graduate Student Paper Award in 2015 from the Disease Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America) PDF

Rohr, J.R., Civitello, D.J., Crumrine, P.W., Halstead, N.T.*, Miller, A.D.§, Schotthoefer, A.M., Stenoien, C.§, Johnson, L.B., Beasley, V.R. 2015. Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 112:3008-3013 (Altmetric score of 67, 97th percentile) PDF

2014

Civitello, D.J., Rohr, J.R. 2014. Disentangling the effects of parasite exposure and host susceptibility on parasite transmission: an illustration with the human zoonotic parasite, Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of Animal Ecology 83:1379-1386 PDF

2012

Sears, B.F*, Schlunk, A.D.§, Rohr, J.R. 2012. Do parasitic trematode cercariae demonstrate a preference for susceptible host species? PLoS ONE 7(12): e51012 PDF 

Rohr, J.R., Halstead, N.T.*, Raffel, T.R. 2012. The herbicide atrazine, algae, and snail populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 31: 973-976 PDF