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Richards RL, Conner LM, Drake JM, Morris G, Ezenwa VO. "Season and predator taxa mediate the effect of predators on parasites in rodents: a test of the healthy herds hypothesis". In revision.

Richards RL, Foster G, Elderd BD, Dallas, TA. “Comparing Waves of COVID-19 in the US: Scale of response changes over time”. Under review

2022

Richards RL, Holian LA. "Infectious Infectious disease: Dog diets may drive transmission cycles in human Guinea worm disease." Current Biology. 32, R170-R173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.005

Cleveland CA, Garrett KB, Box EK, Thompson AT, Haynes EK, Elder DL, Richards RL, Majewska AA, Guagliardo SAJ, Wiegand RE, Bryan JA, Torres-Velez F, Unterwegner K, Romero M, Zirimwabagabo H, Sidouin M, Ouakou PT, Ada MM, Ngandolo BNR, Mackenzie CD, Geary TG, Weiss AJ, Yabsley MJ. “Investigating Flubendazole as an Anthelmintic Treatment for Guinea Worm (Dracunculus medinensis): Clinical Trials in Laboratory-Reared Ferrets and Domestic Dogs in Chad.” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-1222

Richards RL, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Do predators keep prey healthy or make them sicker? A meta-analysis.” Ecology Letters. 25, 278– 294. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13919

2020

Richards RL, Cleveland CA, Hall RJ, Park AW, Yabsley MJ, Ezenwa VO. "Identifying correlates of Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection in domesticdog populations". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 14(9): e0008620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008620

2018

Drake JM and Richards RL. "Estimating environmental suitability." Ecosphere 9.9 (2018): e02373.

2016

Davis AK, Toledo G, and Richards RL. "Investigating temporal changes and effects of elevation on the prevalence of a rickettsial blood parasite in red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in Virginia, USA." Comparative Clinical Pathology (2016): 1-5.

Presentations

2018

Richards RL, Archie EA, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. "Spatial structure of disease transmission across a community: Using species distribution models to map wildlife disease". Contributed Oral Presentation at the Ecological Society of America Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018.

Richards RL, Thompson K, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Avian predation and cotton rat parasites: Size Matters”. Oral Presentation at the 7th Annual Student Research Symposium, UGA student chapter of the Wildlife Disease Association, Athens, GA, 2018.

Richards RL, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Predators and the Parasites in their Prey: Macroecology of a Tri-trophic Interaction”. Oral Presentation at the Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2018.

2017

Richards RL, Archie EA, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Who transmits where? The identity of transmission dominant host species varies across a landscape”. Oral Presentation at the 6th Annual Student Research Symposium, UGA student chapter of the Wildlife Disease Association, Athens, GA, 2017.

Richards RL, Archie EA, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Who transmits where? Using Machine Learning to Map Infectious Disease”. Oral Presentation at the Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2017.

Richards RL, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO. “Spatial Patterns of Host Species’ Transmission Dominance on the National Bison Range”. Oral Presentation at the Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2017.

2016

Richards RL, Drake JM. “Probability Density Ratio Estimation in Species Distribution Modeling” Presentation at the Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2016.

Richards RL, Ezenwa VO. “Are the identities of super-spreading species consistent across parasites?” Poster at 5th Annual Student Research Symposium, UGA student chapter of the Wildlife Disease Association, Athens, GA. 2016.

Richards RL, Ezenwa VO. “Are Superspreading species consistent across parasites?” Poster at the 14th Annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Meeting. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 2016.

2014

Richards RL, Antonovics J. “Phytoprophylaxis? The role of non-susceptible plants in the transmission of Microbotryum”, 3rd Place Presentation at the Katz Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 2014

2013

Richards RL, Antonovics J. “Phytoprophylaxis? The role of non-susceptible plants in the transmission of Microbotryum”, Poster Presentation at the Harrison Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 2013