Kevin D Lafferty

USGS Channel Islands Field Station
UC Santa Barbara Sub Station
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-8778
Fax: (805) 893 8062
Email: klafferty@usgs.gov

I received my Ph. D. in Ecological Parasitology in 1991 at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and took a post doc with the National Marine Sanctuary and a research position at UCLA. I am presently Marine Ecologist for the USGS at the Channel Islands Field Station. As a UCSB adjunct faculty member, the department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology generously provides for my office and laboratory space in the Marine Lab. I advise graduate students in Marine Ecology, but have no formal teaching assignments.

• Conservation biology
• Invasive species ecology
• Nearshore marine ecology
• Parasite ecology
• Wetland ecology

• Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1991
• M.A., Zoology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1988
• B.A., Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1985

• Amercian Society of Parasitologists
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• California Botanical Society
• Ecological Society of America
• Natural Areas Association
• Western Society of Naturalists

• Marine Ecologist, USGS, Western Ecological Science Center, Jul 1998-Present
• Assistant Adj. Prof., UCSB, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Jul 1998-Present
• Assist. Research Biologist, UCSB Marine Science Institute, Jun 1996-Jul 1998
• Assist. Research Biologist, UCLA, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Jun 1994-Jul 1998
• Assist. Research Biologist, UCSB, Marine Science Institute, Jan 1993-May 1994
• Post Doctoral Researcher, National Marine Sanctuaries Program, Jan 1992-Dec 1992

• Amundsen, P.A., K.D. Lafferty, R. Knudsen, R. Primicerio, A. Klemetsen, and A.M. Kuris.2009. Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:563-572[Journal Article]
• Kaplan, A. T., S. Rebhal, K. D. Lafferty, and A. Kuris. 2009. Small estuarine fishes feed on large trematode cercariae: lab and field observations. Journal of Parasitology 95:477-480[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2009. Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change and infectious diseases.Ecology 90:932-933.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2009. The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology 90:888-900[Journal Article]
• Shaw, J. C., W. J. Korzan, R. E. Carpenter, A. M. Kuris, K. D. Lafferty, C. H. Summers, and O. Overli. 2009. Parasite manipulation of brain monoamines in California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) by the trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 276:1137-1146.[Journal Article]
• Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2009. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities: reanalysis using corrected data. Marine Ecology Progress Series 375:209-218.[Journal Article]
• Dobson, A. P., K. D. Lafferty, A. M. Kuris, R. F. Hechinger, and W. Jetz. 2008. Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11482-11489.[Journal Article]
• Hall, S. R., K. D. Lafferty, J. M. Brown, C. E. Caceres, J. M. Chase, A. P. Dobson, R. D. Holt, C. G. Jones, S. E. Randolph, and P. Rohani. 2008. Is infectious disease just another type of consumer-resource interaction? Pages 223-241 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.[Book Chapter]
• Hechinger, R. F., K. D. Lafferty, and A. M. Kuris. 2008. Trematodes indicate animals biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Parasitology 94:966-968.[Journal Article]
• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D. & Kuris, A. M. (2008). Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 275, 2707-2714.[Journal Article]
• Kuris, A. M., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. Whitney, L. Aguirre-Macedo, C. Boch, A. Dobson, E. J. Dunham, B. L. Fredensborg, T. C. Huspeni, J. Lorda, L. Mababa, F. Mancini, A. Mora, M. Pickering, N. Talhouk, M. E. Torchin, and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature 454:515-518.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty KD (2008) Ecosystem consequences of fish parasites. Journal of Fish Biology 73:2083-2093[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2008. Effects of disease on community interactions and food-web structure. Pages 205-222 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.[Book Chapter]
• Lafferty, K. D., J. C. Shaw, and A. M. Kuris. 2008. Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished Palmyra Atoll compared to fished Kiritimati Island. EcoHealth 5:338-345.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., S. Allesina, M. Arim, C. J. Briggs, G. DeLeo, A. P. Dobson, J. A. Dunne, P. T. Johnson, A. M. Kuris, D. J. Marcogliese, N. D. Martinez, J. Memmott, P. A. Marquet, J. P. McLaughlin, E. A. Mordecai, M. Pascual, R. Poulin, and D. W. Thieltges. 2008. Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecology Letters 11:533-546.[Journal Article]
• Perkins, S., S. Altizer, O. Bjornstad, J. Burdon, K. Clay, L. Gomez-Aparicio, J. Jeschke, P. Johnson, K. Lafferty, C. Malstrom, P. Martin, A. Power, P. Thrall, D. Strayer, and M. Uriarte. 2008. Infectious disease in invasion biology. Pages 179-204 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.[Book Chapter]
• Rapport, D. J., P. Daszak, A. Froment, J.-F. Guégan, K. D. Lafferty, A. Larigauderie, A. Mazumder, and A. Winding. 2008. The impact of anthropogenic environmental change at global and regional scales on biodiversity and human health. Pages 41-60 in O. E. Sala, Meyerson, L. A., Parmesan, C., editor. Biodiversity Change and Human Health. Island Press, Washington.[Book Chapter]
• Thomas, M. B., K. D. Lafferty, and C. S. Friedman. 2008. Biodiversity and Disease. Pages 229-244 in O. E. Sala, Meyerson, L. A., Parmesan, C., editor. Biodiversity Change and Human Health. Island Press, Washington.[Book Chapter]
• Torchin, M. E. and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Escape from parasites. Pages 203-214 in G. Rilov and J. Crooks, editors. Marine Bioinvasions: Ecology, conservation and management perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.[Book Chapter]
• Behrens, M. D., and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish performance: implications for the latitudinal diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:867-873. [Journal Article]
• Kuris, A. M., J. H. R. Goddard, M. E. Torchin, N. Murphy, R. Gurney, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. An experimental evaluation of host specificity: The role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs. International Journal for Parasitology 37:539.[Journal Article]
• Sonnenholzner, J. I., L. B. Ladah, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:77-85.[Journal Article]
• Whitney, K. L., R. F. Hechinger, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications 17:1694-1702. [Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2006. Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 273.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D., A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Parasites dominate food web links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:11211-11216.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D., Goodman, D. & Sandoval, C. P. 2006. Restoration of breeding by snowy plovers following protection from disturbance. Biodiversity and Conservation 15, 2217-2230.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. Pages 119-134 in S. Collinge and C. Ray, editors. Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.[Book Chapter]
• Smith, K. E., Sax, D. E. & Lafferty, K. D. 2006 Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment. Conservation Biology 20, 1349-1357.[Journal Article]
• Gerber, L. R., K. D. Lafferty, H. I. McCallum, J. L. Sabo, and A. P. Dobson. 2005. Exposing extinction risk analysis to pathogens: is disease just another form of density dependence? Ecological Applications 15:1402-1414.[Journal Article]
• Goddard, J. H. R., M. E. Torchin, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California. Biological Invasions 7:895-912.[Journal Article]
• Hechinger, R.F., K. D. Lafferty, 2005. Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 272, 1059-1066.[Journal Article]
• Huspeni, T. C., R. F. Hechinger, and K. D. Lafferty. 2005. Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: opportunities, applications and comparisons with conventional community approaches, Pages 297-314 in S. A. Bortone, ed. Estuarine Indicators. Boca Raton, CRC Press.[Book Chapter]
• Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 2005. Biological control of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas: natural enemy evaluation and analysis of host specificity. Pages 102-115 in M. S. Hoddle, editor. Second International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods. Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, University of California, Riverside.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D. (2005) Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity? Behavioral Processes 68: 279-282.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris (2005) Parasitism and environmental disturbances. Parasitism and ecosystems (eds F. Thomas, J. F. Guégan and F. Renaud), 113-123. Oxford, Oxford.[Book Chapter]
• Lafferty, K. D. and E. J. Dunham, 2005. Trematodes in snails near raccoon latrines suggest a final host role for this mammal in California Salt Marshes, Journal of Parasitology 91:474-476[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., Examining Trends in Ocean Disease (February 2005) [Publication Brief]
• Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Lorda, J. & Soler, L. 2005. Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 697-699.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., K. F. Smith, M. E. Torchin, A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2005. The role of infectious disease in natural communities: what introduced species tell us. in D. F. Sax, J. J. Stachowicz, and S. D. Gaines, editors. Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.[Book Chapter]
• Shaw, J., Aguirre-Macedo, L. & Lafferty, K. D. 2005. An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 515-521.[Journal Article]
• Torchin, M. E., Huspeni, T. C., Hechinger, R. F. & Lafferty, K. D. 2005. The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa. Biological Invasions 7, 607-614.[Journal Article]
• Behrens, M. D. and K. D. Lafferty. 2004. Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern California rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 279: 129-139.[Journal Article]
• Harvell, D., R. Aronson, N. Baron, J. Connell, A. Dobson, S. Ellner, L. Gerber, K. Kim, A. Kuris, H. McCallum, K. Lafferty, B. McKay, J. Porter, M. Pascual, G. Smith, K. Sutherland and J. Ward (2004) The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 375-382.[Journal Article]
• Huspeni TC, Lafferty KD. 2004. Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a salt-marsh restoration project. 14: 795-804[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2004. Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins. Ecological Applications. 14: 1566-1573.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., Behrens, M. D., Davis, G. E., Haaker, P. L., Kushner, D.,Richards, D. V., Taniguchi, I. K. and Tegner, M. J. (2004) Habitat of endangered white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, Biological Conservation, 116, 191-194.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., J. Porter and S. E. Ford (2004) Are diseases increasing in the ocean? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 31-54.[Journal Article]
• McCallum, H. I., A. M. Kuris, C. D. Harvell, K. D. Lafferty, G. W. Smith, and J. Porter. 2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:585-591. [Journal Article]
• Ward, J. R. and K. D. Lafferty (2004) The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing? Public Library of Science Biology 2: e120.[Journal Article]
• Airame, S. J. E. Dugan, K. D. Lafferty, H. M. Leslie, D. A. McArdle and R. R. Warner. 2003. Marine reserve design for conservation and fisheries management: a case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecological Applications 13:S170-S184.[Journal Article]
• Choisy, M, Brown, S, Lafferty, KD & Thomas, F (2003) Evolution of trophic transmission in parasites: why add intermediate hosts? American Naturalist 162:172-181[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., and R. D. Holt. 2003. How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? Ecology Letters 6:654-664.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2003. The crisis discipline of conservation medicine. Conservation Biology 17:1859-1860[Book Review]
• Lafferty, KD. 2003. Is disease increasing or decreasing, and does it impact or maintain biodiversity? Journal of Parasitology 89:S101-S105[Journal Article]
• Packer, C, R. D. Holt, P. J. Hudson, K. D. Lafferty, and A. P. Dobson. 2003. Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease. Ecology Letters 6: 797-802.[Journal Article]
• Roberts, C. M., S. J. Andelman, G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. P. Possingham, M. Ruckelshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S199-S215.[Journal Article]
• Roberts, C., G. M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. C. Castilla, J. E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, M. H. Ruckleshaus and R. R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S215-S228.[Journal Article]
• Torchin, M.E., K.D. Lafferty, A.P. Dobson, V.J. McKenzie and A.M. Kuris 2003. Introduced species and their missing parasites. Nature 421:628-630.[Journal Article]
• Cochran , G. R. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Use of acoustic classification of sidescan sonar data for mapping benthic habitat in the northern Channel Islands, California. Continental Shelf Research 22:683-690.[Journal Article]
• Kuris, A.M., M. E. Torchin and K.D. Lafferty. 2002. Fecampia erythrocephala rediscovered: prevalence and distribution of a parasitoid of the European shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK 82:955-960.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2002. Biological control of marine invasions. Pp 14-20 In Invasions in Aquatic Ecosystems: Impacts on Restoration and Potential for Control. Proceedings of a Workshop, April 25, 1998, Sacramento, California. Cohen, A.N. and K. Webb (eds.). San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D. and L. Gerber. 2002. Good medicine for conservation biology: The intersection of epidemiology and conservation theory. Conservation Biology 16:593-604.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2002. Inter-specific interactions in trematode communities. Pp 153-169 in E. E. Lewis, M. V. K. Sukhdeo and J. F. Campbell, eds. The Behavioral Ecology of Parasites. CABI[Book Chapter]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2002. There's room for shorebirds too. Soundwaves, February, 2002. USGS newsletter.[Newsletter]
• Lafferty, K.D. 2002. Where Disease May Mean Good Health -- The Role of Parasites in Natural Ecosystems. Soundwaves, April, 2002. USGS newsletter.[Newsletter]
• Lafferty, K.D. and A.M. Kuris 2002. Trophic strategies, animal diversity and body size. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:507-513.[Journal Article]
• Maender, Gloria. 2002. Parasites as Indicators of Coastal-Ecosystem Health. Soundwaves, August 2002[Newsletter]
• Thomas, F., Fauchier, J. and K. D. Lafferty. 2002. Conflict of interest between a nematode and a trematode in an amphipod host: test of the "sabotage" hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 296-301.[Journal Article]
• Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2002. Parasites and Marine Invasions. Parasitology 124:S137-S151.[Journal Article]
• Kevin D. Lafferty. 2001. Restoration of the White Abalone in Southern California: Population Assessment, Brood Stock Collection, and Development of Husbandry Technology. Final Report. S-K (NOAA) NA96FD0208.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Birds at a Southern California beach: seasonality, habitat use and disturbance by human activity. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 1949-1962.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 2001. Disturbance to wintering western snowy plovers. Biological Conservation 101:315-325.[Journal Article]
• Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 2001. Release from parasites as natural enemies: increased performance of a globally introduced marine crab. Biological Invasions 3:333-345.[Journal Article]
• Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 2000. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. pp 339-346 in, DR Brown, KL Mitchell and HW Chang eds., Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Minerals Management Service Publication # 99-0038.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D. and D. Kushner. 2000. Population regulation of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentritus purpuratus, at the California Channel Islands. pp 379-381 in, DR Brown, KL Mitchell and HW Chang eds., Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Minerals Management Service Publication # 99-0038.[Proceedings]
• Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, D. L. Martin, J. M. Engle, D. M. Richards, G. E. Davis, K. D. Lafferty, R. F. Ambrose 1999. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. California Channel Islands Symposium (Research Paper).[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1999. The evolution of trophic transmission. Parasitology Today 15:111-115.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1999. How environmental stress affects the impacts of parasites. Limnology and Oceanography 44:564-590.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and D. Kushner. 1999. Population regulation of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentritus purpuratus, at the California Channel Islands. California Channel Islands Symposium (Research Note).[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D., C. C. Swift and R. F. Ambrose 1999. Post flood persistence and recolonization of endangered tidewater goby populations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19:618-622.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., Swift, C. C. and Ambrose, R. F. 1999. Extirpation and recolonization in a metapopulation of an endangered fish, the tidewater goby. Conservation Biology 13:1-8.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1998. Efforts to monitor and protect tidewater gobies at Gaviota Creek during a stream bank stabilization project. Final Report to the California Department of Parks.[Technical Report]
• Bush, A. O., K. D. Lafferty, J. M. Font and A. W. Shostak 1997. Parasitology meets ecology: definitions, clarifications, examples and Margolis et al. revisited. Journal of Parasitology.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1997. The ecology of parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. pp 316-332 In, Parasites and Pathogens: Effects on Host Hormones and Behavior. N. E. Beckage and M. Zuk, eds.[Book Chapter]
• Lafferty, K. D. and M. E. Torchin. 1997. Parasites of the sand crabs, Emerita analoga and Blepharipoda occidentalis and the risk of infection for foraging sea otters, Enhydra lutris. Final report to the USGS.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1997. Environmental parasitology: what can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment? Parasitology Today 13:251-255.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and Page, C. J. 1997. Predation on the endangered tidewater goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, by the introduced African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, with notes on the frog's parasites. Copeia 1997:589-592.[Journal Article]
• Altstatt, J. A., R. F. Ambrose, J. M. Engle, P. L. Haaker, K. D. Lafferty and P. T. Raimondi. 1996. Recent declines of black abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the mainland coast of central California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 142:185-192.[Journal Article]
• Ferren, W. J., P. L. Fiedler, R. A. Leidy, K. D. Lafferty and L. A. K. Mertes. 1996. Wetlands of California, part II: A method for their classification and description. Madroño 43 (1) S:125-182.[Journal Article]
• Ferren, W. J., P. L. Fiedler, R. A. Leidy, K. D. Lafferty and L. A. K. Mertes. 1996. Wetlands of California, part III: Key to and catalogue of wetlands of the Central and Southern California coast and coastal watersheds. Madroño 43 (1) S:183-234.[Journal Article]
• Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. E. Torchin. 1996 Control of the European Green Crab in California: Detection of Natural Enemies. Final Report to Saltonstall-Kennedy. Grant Number: NA46FDO493.[Technical Report]
• Kuris, A. M., K. D. Lafferty, and M. J. Grygier. 1996. Detection and preliminary evaluation of natural enemies for possible biological control of the Northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis. Technical report number 3. Centre for Resarch on Introduced Marine Pests. CSIRO Australia.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. K. Morris. 1996. Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts. Ecology 77:1390-1397.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1996. Biological Control of Marine Pests. Ecology 77: 1989-2000.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D., R. O. Swenson, and C. C. Swift. 1996. Threatened fishes of the world: Eucyclogobius newberryi Girard, 1857 (Gobiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 46:254.[Journal Article]
• Torchin, M. E., K. D. Lafferty and A. M. Kuris. 1996. Infestation of an introduced host, the European green crab, Carcinus maenas by a native symbiotic nemertean egg predator, Carcinonemertes epialti. Journal of Parasitology 82: 449-453.[Journal Article]
• Gaines, S. D. and K. D. Lafferty. 1995. Modeling the dynamics of marine species: the importance of incorporating larval dispersal. Pp. 389-412 in L. McEdward ed., Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. CRC Press.[Book Chapter]
• Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1995. Invasion of California estuaries by the nonindigenous green crab Carcinus maenas: assessment of impact and geographic spread. 1992-1994 Sea Grant Biennial Report of Completed Projects.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1995. Bird communities. pp. 46-54 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1995. Santa Barbara County wetlands. pp. 4-22 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the S.B. County.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. and J. A. Altstatt 1995. Fish communities. pp. 55-73. In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara.[Technical Report]
• Sandoval, C. P. and K. D. Lafferty 1995. Invertebrate communities. pp. 39-45 In R. F. Ambrose, editor, Coastal Wetland Resources: Santa Barbara County Mainland. Final Report to the County of Santa Barbara.[Technical Report]
• Engle, J.M., L. Gorodezky, K.D. Lafferty, R.F. Ambrose, and P.T. Raimondi. 1994. First year study plan for inventory of coastal ecological resources of the northern Channel Islands and Ventura/Los Angeles Counties. Report to the California Coastal Commission. September 1994. 31 p.[Technical Report]
• Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1994. Community structure: larval trematodes in snail hosts. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25:189-217.[Journal Article]
• Kuris, A. M. and K. D. Lafferty. 1994. Green Crab Alert. Crab Newsletter Vol. 1, No 1: 4-5.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1994. Potential uses for biological control of alien marine species. In Proceedings of the Conference & Workshop on Nonindigenous Estuarine and Marine Organisms. US Department of Commerce, NOAA Office of the Chief Scientist. pp. 97-102.[Proceedings]
• Lafferty, K. D., D. T. Sammond and A. M. Kuris. 1994. Analysis of larval trematode community structure: separating the roles of competition and spatial heterogeneity. Ecology 75: 2275-2285.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1993. The marine snail, Cerithidea californica, matures at smaller sizes where parasitism is high. Oikos 68:3-11.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1993. Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of Cerithidea californica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96:229-237.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1993. Mass mortality of abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the California Channel Islands: tests of epidemiological hypotheses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96:239-248.[Journal Article]
• Kuris, A. M. & K. D. Lafferty. 1992. Modelling crustacean fisheries: effects of parasites on management strategies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:327-336.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1992. Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites. American Naturalist 140 (5): 854-867.[Journal Article]
• Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. 1992. Withering syndrome is spreading. A'lul'quoy 5 (1): 15.[Popular Publication]
• Lafferty, K. D. and C. P. Sandoval. 1992. A Survey of the Fishes of Goleta Slough. Report to City of S.B.[Technical Report]
• Lafferty, K. D. 1991. Effects of parasitic castration on the salt marsh snail, Cerithidea californica. Unpub. Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara. 116 pp.[Thesis/Dissertation]