Selected Publications:

Waltari, Eric and Susan L. Perkins. 2010. In the hosts’ footsteps? Ecological niche modeling and its utility in predicting parasite distributions.  In The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions. Serge Morand, editor. Oxford University Press. pp 145-157.

Waltari, Eric and Robert P. Guralnick. 2009. Ecological niche modeling of montane mammals in the Great Basin, North America: examining past and present connectivity of species across basins and ranges. Journal of Biogeography. 36:148-161.

Perkins, Susan L., Anna Rothschild, and Eric Waltari.  Infections of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium floridense, in the Invasive Lizard, Anolis sagrei, in Florida. 2007. Journal of Herpetology. 41(4):750-754.

Waltari, Eric, Robert J. Hijmans, A. Townsend Peterson, Árpád S. Nyári, Susan L. Perkins, and Robert P. Guralnick. 2007. Locating Pleistocene refugia: comparing phylogeographic and ecological niche model predictions. PLoS ONE. 2(7):e563.

Waltari, Eric, Eric P. Hoberg, Enrique Lessa, and Joseph A. Cook. Eastward Ho: phylogeographic perspectives on colonization of hosts and parasites across the Beringian nexus. 2007. Journal of Biogeography. 34:561-574.

Janies, Daniel, Andrew W. Hill, Robert Guralnick, Farhat Habib, Eric Waltari, and Ward C. Wheeler. 2007. Genomic analysis and geographic visualization of the spread of Avian Influenza

(H5N1). Systematic Biology. 56:321-329.

Eric is an evolutionary ecologist and biogeographer using molecular methods and species distribution modeling to examine the evolutionary ecology of many types of organisms, but often North American mammals and their parasites.  He has extensive experience in molecular techniques, GIS, species distribution modeling, and field biology.

Recently, Eric has worked on projects that include the evolutionary ecology of Bartonella bacteria, mapping strains of potential human pathogens, examining biogeography and coevolution among Ixodes ticks and small mammals of Alaska, and using species distribution modeling to examine past and current distributions of North American mammals, and North Atlantic intertidal organisms.

In the lab, he is very active in creating paleomodels for the Atlantic Rainforest and improving species distribution models through remote sensing.

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