P. A. Leighton

This study quantifies contact rates between small Indian mongooses and free-roaming domestic dogs in Puerto Rico, finding limited interspecific interactions and highlighting home range overlap as a key factor in rabies virus transmission risk.

The paper models how climate warming can cause disease to spread southward even as host species move northward, due to lagged thermal niche adaptation.

This study examines how weather and land use affect mosquito species occurrence and abundance in Eastern Ontario, finding that temperature, precipitation, and land cover types significantly influence these factors.

The paper detects California serogroup virus RNA in Aedes mosquitoes and Simulioidae flies in Northern Canada and Alaska, highlighting the potential of biting insects for tracking arbovirus emergence.