Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Gokcekus S., Firth J.A., Cole E.F., Sheldon B.C., Albery G.F., Different types of social links contrastingly shape reproductive traits in a multi-level society of wild songbirds, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, (4), 2025
Becker, Samuel C., Albery, Gregory F., Jackson, Nicola, Prewett, Emma, Mitchell, Angela C., McGuigan, Katrina, Frere, Celine H., Indirect pathogen transmission underlies an emerging infectious fungal disease outbreak in a wild reptile population, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292, (2061), 2025
Santangeli, Andrea, Vicente, Joaquín, Acevedo, Pelayo, Plaza, Pablo, Lambertucci, Sergio A., Blanco-Aguiar, José A., Tobajas, Jorge, Morelle, Kevin, Albery, Gregory F., VerCauteren, Kurt, Gavier-Widen, Dolores, Margalida, Antoni, One Health must embrace the carcass-scavenger-pathogen interface, Cell Reports Sustainability, 2, (8), 2025, p100439
Albery, Gregory F., Becker, Daniel J., Firth, Josh A., De Moor, Delphine, Ravindran, Sanjana, Silk, Matthew, Sweeny, Amy R., Vander Wal, Eric, Webber, Quinn, Allen, Bryony, Babayan, Simon A., Barve, Sahas, Begon, Mike, Birtles, Richard J., Block, Theadora A., Block, Barbara A., Bradley, Janette E., Budischak, Sarah, Buesching, Christina, Burthe, Sarah J., Carlisle, Aaron B., Caselle, Jennifer E., Cattuto, Ciro, Chaine, Alexis S., Chapple, Taylor K., Cheney, Barbara J., Clutton-Brock, Timothy, Collier, Melissa, Curnick, David J., Delahay, Richard J., Farine, Damien R., Fenton, Andy, Ferretti, Francesco, Feyrer, Laura, Fielding, Helen, Foroughirad, Vivienne, Frere, Celine, Gardner, Michael G., Geffen, Eli, Godfrey, Stephanie S., Graham, Andrea L., Hammond, Phil S., Henrich, Maik, Heurich, Marco, Hopwood, Paul, Ilany, Amiyaal, Jackson, Joseph A., Jackson, Nicola, Jacoby, David M. P., Jacoby, Ann-Marie, Ježek, Miloš, Kirkpatrick, Lucinda, Klamm, Alisa, Klarevas-Irby, James A., Knowles, Sarah, Koren, Lee, Krzyszczyk, Ewa, Kusch, Jillian M., Lambin, Xavier, Lane, Jeffrey E., Leirs, Herwig, Leu, Stephan T., Lyon, Bruce E., Macdonald, David W., Madsen, Anastasia E., Mann, Janet, Manser, Marta, Mariën, Joachim, Massawe, Apia, McDonald, Robbie A., Morelle, Kevin, Mourier, Johann, Newman, Chris, Nussear, Kenneth, Nyaguthii, Brendah, Ogino, Mina, Ozella, Laura, Packer, Craig, Papastamatiou, Yannis P., Paterson, Steve, Payne, Eric, Pedersen, Amy B., Pemberton, Josephine M., Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Planes, Serge, Raulo, Aura, Rodríguez-Muñoz, Rolando, Rudd, Lauren, Sabuni, Christopher, Sah, Pratha, Schallert, Robert J., Sheldon, Ben C., Shizuka, Daizaburo, Sih, Andrew, Sinn, David L., Sluydts, Vincent, Spiegel, Orr, Telfer, Sandra, Thomason, Courtney A., Tickler, David M., Tregenza, Tom, VanderWaal, Kimberley, Walmsley, Sam, Walters, Eric L., Wanelik, Klara M., Whitehead, Hal, Wielgus, Elodie, Wilson-Aggarwal, Jared, Wohlfeil, Caroline, Bansal, Shweta, Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9, (11), 2025, p2002-2013
Hewett, Anna M, Johnston, Susan E, Albery, Gregory F, Morris, Alison, Morris, Sean J, Pemberton, Josephine M, Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate, Evolution Letters, 2025
Albery, Gregory F., Sweeny, Amy R., Corripio-Miyar, Yolanda, Evans, Mike J., Hayward, Adam D., Pemberton, Josephine M., Pilkington, Jill G., Nussey, Daniel H., Local and global density have distinct and parasite-dependent effects on infection in wild sheep, Parasitology, 152, (7), 2025, p715-723
Firth, Josh A., Raulo, Aura, Albery, Gregory F., Jari", Ivan, Knowles, Sarah C. L., Consider the costs of connectivity when creating a well-connected Earth, Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1, (12), 2025, p748-749
Nikc, Kayla, Albery, Gregory F., Becker, Daniel J., Eskew, Evan A., Fagre, Anna C., Ryan, Sadie J., Carlson, Colin J., Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species, Ecosphere, 16, (11), 2025
Mohan, Midhun, King, Shalini A. L., Moussa, Lara G., Watt, Michael S., Awuku-Sowah, Emma M., Albery, Gregory F., Kairo, James, Amir, A. Aldrie, Sila, Julius, Macreadie, Peter I., UAV-supported mangrove restoration: nature-based solutions for controlling vector-borne disease incidence, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197, (12), 2025
Hasik, Adam Z., Hewett, Anna M., Maris, Katie, Morris, Sean J., Morris, Ali, Albery, Gregory F., Pemberton, Josephine M., Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer, Heredity, 134, (10-11), 2025, p637-644
Hasik, Adam Z., Butt, Shane, Maris, Katie, Morris, Sean, Morris, Alison, Turner, Richard S., Pemberton, Josephine M., Albery, Gregory F., Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer, Parasitology, 152, (7), 2025, p724-734
Motes"Rodrigo, Alba, Albery, Gregory F., Negron"Del Valle, Josue E., Philips, Daniel, , , Platt, Michael L., Brent, Lauren J. N., Testard, Camille, A Natural Disaster Exacerbates and Redistributes Disease Risk Among Free"Ranging Macaques by Altering Social Structure, Ecology Letters, 28, (1), 2025
Schwantes, Collin J., Sánchez, Cecilia A., Stevens, Tess, Zimmerman, Ryan, Albery, Greg, Becker, Daniel J., Brookson, Cole B., Kading, Rebekah C., Keiser, Carl N., Khandelwal, Shashank, Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie, Krut-Landau, Raphael, McKee, Clifton, Montecino-Latorre, Diego, O"Donoghue, Zoe, Olson, Sarah H., O"Shea, Mika, Poisot, Timothée, Robertson, Hailey, Ryan, Sadie J., Seifert, Stephanie N., Simons, David, Vicente-Santos, Amanda, Wood, Chelsea L., Graeden, Ellie, Carlson, Colin J., A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance, Scientific Data, 12, (1), 2025
Forero-Muñoz, Norma R, Muylaert, Renata L, Seifert, Stephanie N, Albery, Gregory F, Becker, Daniel J, Carlson, Colin J, Poisot, Timothée, The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk, Virus Evolution, 10, (1), 2024
Albery, Gregory F., Bansal, Shweta, Silk, Matthew J., Comparative approaches in social network ecology, Ecology Letters, 27, (1), 2024
Albery, Gregory F., Webber, Quinn M. R., Farine, Damien, Picardi, Simona, Vander Wal, Eric, Manlove, Kezia R., Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial"social interface, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379, (1912), 2024
Knutie, Sarah A., Bahouth, Rachel, Bertone, Matthew A., Webb, Caroline, Mehta, Mahima, Nahom, Mia, Barta, Rachael M., Ghai, Sharan, Love, Ashley C., Horan, Sydney, Soldo, Alexandria, Cochrane, Elizabeth, Bartholomew, Jenna, Cowan, Emily, Bjerke, Heather, Balenger, Susan L., Butler, Michael W., Cornell, Allison, Kennedy, Ashley C., Rolland, Virginie, Schultz, Elizabeth M., Stanback, Mark, Taff, Conor C., Albery, Gregory F., Understanding spatiotemporal effects of food supplementation on host"parasite interactions using community"based science, Journal of Animal Ecology, 93, (12), 2024, p1830-1840
Firth, Josh A., Albery, Gregory F., Bouwhuis, Sandra, Brent, Lauren J. N., Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Understanding age and society using natural populations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379, (1916), 2024
Rudd, Lauren F., Packer, Craig, Biro, Dora, Firth, Josh A., Albery, Gregory F., Sex-specific social aging in wild African lions, Current Biology, 34, (17), 2024, p4039-4046.e2
Albery, Gregory F., Hasik, Adam Z., Morris, Sean, Morris, Alison, Kenyon, Fiona, McBean, David, Pemberton, Josephine M., Nussey, Daniel H., Firth, Josh A., Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379, (1916), 2024
Silva, N.I.O., Albery, G.F., Arruda, M.S., Oliveira, G.F.G., Costa, T.A., de Mello, É.M., Moreira, G.D., Reis, E.V., da Silva, S.A., Silva, M.C., de Almeida, M.G., Becker, D.J., Carlson, C.J., Vasilakis, N., Hanley, K.A., Drumond, B.P., Ecological drivers of sustained enzootic yellow fever virus transmission in Brazil, 2017"2021, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17, (6 June), 2023
Pegg, C.L., Schulz, B.L., Neely, B.A., Albery, G.F., Carlson, C.J., Glycosylation and the global virome, Molecular Ecology, 32, (1), 2023, p37-44
Albery, G.F., Sweeny, A.R., Webber, Q., How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 2023
Webber, Quinn M. R., Albery, Gregory F., Farine, Damien R., Pinter"Wollman, Noa, Sharma, Nitika, Spiegel, Orr, Vander Wal, Eric, Manlove, Kezia, Behavioural ecology at the spatial"social interface, Biological Reviews, 98, (3), 2023, p868-886
Sanaei, E., Albery, G.F., Yeoh, Y.K., Lin, Y.-P., Cook, L.G., Engelstädter, J., Host phylogeny and ecological associations best explain Wolbachia host shifts in scale insects, Molecular Ecology, 32, (9), 2023, p2351-2363
Stockmaier, Sebastian, Ulrich, Yuko, Albery, Gregory F., Cremer, Sylvia, Lopes, Patricia C., Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures, Functional Ecology, 37, (4), 2023, p809-820
Poisot, T., Ouellet, M.-A., Mollentze, N., Farrell, M.J., Becker, D.J., Brierley, L., Albery, G.F., Gibb, R.J., Seifert, S.N., Carlson, C.J., Network embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome, Patterns, 4, (6), 2023
Gupte, P.R., Albery, G.F., Gismann, J., Sweeny, A., Weissing, F.J., Novel pathogen introduction triggers rapid evolution in animal social movement strategies, eLife, 12, 2023
Gokcekus, S., Firth, J.A., Regan, C., Cole, E.F., Sheldon, B.C., Albery, G.F., Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird, American Naturalist, 201, (6), 2023, p813-824
Sweeny, Amy R., Albery, Gregory F., Exposure and susceptibility: The Twin Pillars of infection, Functional Ecology, 36, (7), 2022, p1713-1726
Carlson, C.J., Albery, G.F., Merow, C., Trisos, C.H., Zipfel, C.M., Eskew, E.A., Olival, K.J., Ross, N., Bansal, S., Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk, Nature, 607, (7919), 2022, p555-562
Carlson, C.J., Gibb, R.J., Albery, G.F., Brierley, L., Connor, R.P., Dallas, T.A., Eskew, E.A., Fagre, A.C., Farrell, M.J., Frank, H.K., Muylaert, R.L., Poisot, T., Rasmussen, A.L., Ryan, S.J., Seifert, S.N., The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations, mBio, 13, (2), 2022
Becker, D.J., Albery, G.F., Sjodin, A.R., Poisot, T., Bergner, L.M., Chen, B., Cohen, L.E., Dallas, T.A., Eskew, E.A., Fagre, A.C., Farrell, M.J., Guth, S., Han, B.A., Simmons, N.B., Stock, M., Teeling, E.C., Carlson, C.J., Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs, The Lancet Microbe, 3, (8), 2022, pe625-e637
Ikeda, Priscila, Torres, Jaire Marinho, Lourenço, Elizabete Captivo, Albery, Gregory F., Herrera, Heitor Miraglia, de Oliveira, Carina Elisei, Machado, Rosangela Zacarias, André, Marcos Rogério, Molecular detection and genotype diversity of hemoplasmas in non-hematophagous bats and associated ectoparasites sampled in peri-urban areas from Brazil, Acta Tropica, 225, 2022, p106203
Gregory F. Albery, Colin J. Carlson, Lily E. Cohen, Evan A. Eskew, Rory Gibb, Sadie J. Ryan, Amy R. Sweeny, Daniel J. Becker, Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022
Crates, Ross, Watson, David M., Albery, Gregory F., Bonnet, Timothée, Murphy, Liam, Rayner, Laura, Stojanovic, Dejan, Timewell, Chris, Meney, Beau, Roderick, Mick, Ingwersen, Dean, Heinsohn, Robert, Mistletoes could moderate drought impacts on birds, but are themselves susceptible to drought-induced dieback, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, (1978), 2022
Gibb, R., Albery, G.F., Mollentze, N., Eskew, E.A., Brierley, L., Ryan, S.J., Seifert, S.N., Carlson, C.J., Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort, Biology letters, 18, (1), 2022, p20210427
Albery, G.F., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pemberton, J.M., Nussey, D.H., Firth, J.A., Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, (8), 2022, p1231-1238
Gregory F. Albery, Amy R. Sweeny, Daniel J. Becker, Shweta Bansal, Fine"scale spatial patterns of wildlife disease are common and understudied, Functional Ecology, 2022
Acerini, C.I., Morris, S., Morris, A., Kenyon, F., McBean, D., Pemberton, J.M., Albery, G.F., Helminth parasites are associated with reduced survival probability in young red deer, Parasitology, 149, (13), 2022, p1702-1708
Collier, Melissa, Albery, Gregory F., McDonald, Grant C., Bansal, Shweta, Pathogen transmission modes determine contact network structure, altering other pathogen characteristics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, (1989), 2022
Fagre, Anna C., Cohen, Lily E., Eskew, Evan A., Farrell, Max, Glennon, Emma, Joseph, Maxwell B., Frank, Hannah K., Ryan, Sadie J., Carlson, Colin J, Albery, Gregory F., Assessing the risk of human"to"wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health, Ecology Letters, 25, (6), 2022, p1534-1549
Albery, Gregory F., Turilli, Isabella, Joseph, Maxwell B., Foley, Janet, Frere, Celine H., Bansal, Shweta, From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease, Fire Ecology, 17, (1), 2021
Megan A Wallace, Kelsey A Coffman, Clément Gilbert, Sanjana Ravindran, Gregory F Albery, Jessica Abbott, Eliza Argyridou, Paola Bellosta, Andrea J Betancourt, Hervé Colinet, Katarina Eric, Amanda Glaser-Schmitt, Sonja Grath, Mihailo Jelic, Maaria Kankare, Iryna Kozeretska, Volker Loeschcke, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Lino Ometto, Banu Sebnem Onder, Dorcas J Orengo, John Parsch, Marta Pascual, Aleksandra Patenkovic, Eva Puerma, Michael G Ritchie, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Mads Fristrup Schou, Svitlana V Serga, Marina Stamenkovic-Radak, Marija Tanaskovic, Marija Savic Veselinovic, Jorge Vieira, Cristina P Vieira, Martin Kapun, Thomas Flatt, Josefa González, Fabian Staubach, Darren J Obbard, The discovery, distribution and diversity of DNA viruses associated with Drosophila melanogaster in Europe, Virus Evolution, 2021
Carlson, C.J., Albery, G.F., Phelan, A., Preparing international cooperation on pandemic prevention for the Anthropocene, BMJ Global Health, 6, (3), 2021
Gregory F. Albery, Daniel J. Becker, Fast-lived Hosts and Zoonotic Risk, Trends in Parasitology, 2021
Albery, Gregory F., Kirkpatrick, Lucinda, Firth, Josh A., Bansal, Shweta, Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, 90, (1), 2021, p45-61
Gregory F. Albery and Daniel J. Becker and Liam Brierley and Cara E. Brook and Rebecca C. Christofferson and Lily E. Cohen and Tad A. Dallas and Evan A. Eskew and Anna Fagre and Maxwell J. Farrell and Emma Glennon and Sarah Guth and Maxwell B. Joseph and Nardus Mollentze and Benjamin A. Neely and Timothé, The science of the host"virus network, Nature Microbiology, 6, (12), 2021, p1483--1492
Gregory F. Albery, Alison Morris, Sean Morris, Josephine M. Pemberton, Tim H. Clutton"Brock, Daniel H. Nussey, Josh A. Firth, Andrew Sih, Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate, Ecology Letters, 2021
Carlson, C.J., Farrell, M.J., Grange, Z., Han, B.A., Mollentze, N., Phelan, A.L., Rasmussen, A.L., Albery, G.F., Bett, B., Brett-Major, D.M., Cohen, L.E., Dallas, T., Eskew, E.A., Fagre, A.C., Forbes, K.M., Gibb, R., Halabi, S., Hammer, C.C., Katz, R., Kindrachuk, J., Muylaert, R.L., Nutter, F.B., Ogola, J., Olival, K.J., Rourke, M., Ryan, S.J., Ross, N., Seifert, S.N., Sironen, T., Standley, C.J., Taylor, K., Venter, M., Webala, P.W., The future of zoonotic risk prediction, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, (1837), 2021
Amy R. Sweeny, Gregory F. Albery, Daniel J. Becker, Evan A. Eskew, Colin J. Carlson, Synzootics, Journal of Animal Ecology, 90, (12), 2021, p2744--2754
Rory Gibb, Gregory F Albery, Daniel J Becker, Liam Brierley, Ryan Connor, Tad A Dallas, Evan A Eskew, Maxwell J Farrell, Angela L Rasmussen, Sadie J Ryan, Amy Sweeny, Colin J Carlson, Timothée Poisot, Data Proliferation, Reconciliation, and Synthesis in Viral Ecology, BioScience, 2021
Albery, G.F., Morris, A., Morris, S., Kenyon, F., Nussey, D.H., Pemberton, J.M., Fitness costs of parasites explain multiple life-history trade-offs in a wild mammal, American Naturalist, 197, (3), 2021, p324-335
Sweeny, Amy R., Albery, Gregory F., Venkatesan, Saudamini, Fenton, Andy, Pedersen, Amy B., Spatiotemporal variation in drivers of parasitism in a wild wood mouse population, Functional Ecology, 35, (6), 2021, p1277-1287
Becker, Daniel J., Albery, Gregory F., Kessler, Maureen K., Lunn, Tamika J., Falvo, Caylee A., Czirják, Gábor Á., Martin, Lynn B., Plowright, Raina K., Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence, Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, (4), 2020, p972-995
Albery, Gregory F., Watt, Kathryn A., Keith, Rosie, Morris, Sean, Morris, Alison, Kenyon, Fiona, Nussey, Daniel H., Pemberton, Josephine M., Reproduction has different costs for immunity and parasitism in a wild mammal, Functional Ecology, 34, (1), 2020, p229-239
Gregory F. Albery, Evan A. Eskew, Noam Ross, Kevin J. Olival, Predicting the global mammalian viral sharing network using phylogeography, Nature Communications, 2020
Cooke, Andrew S., Watt, Kathryn A., Albery, Greg F., Morgan, Eric R., Dungait, Jennifer A.J., Lactoferrin quantification in cattle faeces by ELISA, PeerJ, 8, 2020, pe8631
Gregory F. Albery, Chris Newman, Julius Bright Ross, David W. MacDonald, Shweta Bansal, Christina Buesching, Negative density-dependent parasitism in a group-living carnivore, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, (1941), 2020, p20202655
Westwood, M.L., O'Donnell, A.J., Schneider, P., Albery, G.F., Prior, K.F., Reece, S.E., Testing possible causes of gametocyte reduction in temporally out-of-synch malaria infections, Malaria Journal, 19, (1), 2020
Becker, Daniel J., Albery, Gregory F., Expanding host specificity and pathogen sharing beyond viruses, Molecular Ecology, 29, (17), 2020, p3170-3172
Gregory F Albery, Daniel J Becker, Fiona Kenyon, Daniel H Nussey, Josephine M Pemberton, The Fine-Scale Landscape of Immunity and Parasitism in a Wild Ungulate Population, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2019
Gregory F. Albery, Fiona Kenyon, Alison Morris, Sean Morris, Daniel H. Nussey, Josephine M. Pemberton, Seasonality of helminth infection in wild red deer varies between individuals and between parasite taxa, Parasitology, 145, (11), 2018, p1410--1420
Hunt ER, O'Shea-Wheller T, Albery GF, Bridger TH, Gumn M, Franks NR, Ants show a leftward turning bias when exploring unknown nest sites., Biology letters, 2014

