Full List of Publications

Selected Publications:

Dumas, A., Bouchard, C., Lindsay, L. R., Ogden, N. H., & Leighton, P. A. (2022). Fine-scale determinants of the spatiotemporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Quebec (Canada). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 13(1), 101833.

Leighton, F. A., Leighton, P. A., Wood, S., & Kuiken, T. (2021). Revenge of the Trees: Environmental Determinants and Population Effects of Infectious Disease Outbreaks On A Breeding Colony of Double-Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) Over A Period of 21 Years. The Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 57(4), 773-783.

Tardy, O., Bouchard, C., Chamberland, E., Fortin, A., Lamirande, P., Ogden, N. H., & Leighton, P. A. (2021). Mechanistic movement models reveal ecological drivers of tick-borne pathogen spread. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(181), 20210134.

Guillot, C., Badcock, J., Clow, K., Cram, J., Dergousoff, S., Dibernardo, A., Evason, M., Fraser, E., Galanis, E., & Gasmi, S. (2020). Canadian Lyme Sentinel surveillance report, 2019. CCDR, 46(10).

Pelletier, J., Rocheleau, J.-P., Aenishaenslin, C., Beaudry, F., Masson, G. D., Lindsay, L. R., Ogden, N. H., Bouchard, C., & Leighton, P. A. (2020). Evaluation of fluralaner as an oral acaricide to reduce tick infestation in a wild rodent reservoir of Lyme disease. Parasites & vectors, 13(1), 1-9.

Sauvé, C. C., Rees, E. E., Gilbert, A. T., Berentsen, A. R., Allibert, A., & Leighton, P. A. (2021). Modeling Mongoose Rabies in the Caribbean: A Model-Guided Fieldwork Approach to Identify Research Priorities. Viruses, 13(2), 323.

Simon, A., Beauchamp, G., Bélanger, D., Bouchard, C., Fehlner‐Gardiner, C., Lecomte, N., Rees, E., & Leighton, P. A. (2021). Ecology of Arctic rabies: 60 years of disease surveillance in the warming climate of northern Canada. Zoonoses and Public Health.

Simon, A., Tardy, O., Hurford, A., Lecomte, N., Bélanger, D., & Leighton, P. (2019). Dynamics and persistence of rabies in the Arctic. Polar Research.

Ripoche, M., Campagna, C., Ludwig, A., Ogden, N. H., & Leighton, P. A. (2019). Short-term forecasting of daily abundance of West Nile virus vectors Culex pipiens-restuans and Aedes vexans based on weather conditions and larvicide use in southern Québec (Canada). Journal of Medical Entomology, tjz002.

Bouchard, C., Aenishaenslin, C., Rees, E. E., Koffi, J. K., Pelcat, Y., Ripoche, M., Milord, F., Lindsay, L. R., Ogden, N. H., & Leighton, P. A. (2018). Integrated Social-Behavioral and Ecological Risk Maps to Prioritize Local Public Health Responses to Lyme Disease. Environmental Health Perspectives, 126(4), 047008.

Ripoche, M., Gasmi, S., Adam-Poupart, A., Koffi, J. K., Lindsay, L. R., Ludwig, A., Milord, F., Ogden, N. H., Thivierge, K., & Leighton, P. A. (2018). Passive tick surveillance provides an accurate early signal of emerging Lyme disease risk and human cases in southern Canada. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55(4), 1016-1026.

Watts, A. G., Saura, S., Jardine, C., Leighton, P., Werden, L., & Fortin, M.-J. (2018). Host functional connectivity and the spread potential of Lyme disease. Landscape Ecology, 33(11), 1925-1938.

Ogden, N., Feil, E., Leighton, P., Lindsay, L., Margos, G., Mechai, S., Michel, P., & Moriarty, T. (2015). Evolutionary Aspects of Emerging Lyme Disease in Canada. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(21), 7350-7359.

Ogden, N. H., Radojević, M., Wu, X., Duvvuri, V. R., Leighton, P. A., & Wu, J. (2014). Estimated effects of projected climate change on the basic reproductive number of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 122(6), 631-638.

Ogden, N. H., Lindsay, L. R., & Leighton, P. A. (2013). Predicting the rate of invasion of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(2), 510-518.

Leighton, P. A., Koffi, J. K., Pelcat, Y., Lindsay, L. R., & Ogden, N. H. (2012). Predicting the speed of tick invasion: an empirical model of range expansion for the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 457–464.

Leighton, P. A., Horrocks, J. A., Krueger, B. H., Beggs, J. A., & Kramer, D. L. (2008). Predicting species interactions from edge responses: mongoose predation on hawksbill sea turtle nests in fragmented beach habitat. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 275(1650), 2465-2472.