- Email:
- lfchaves@iu.edu
Recent Publications:
Koren O and Chaves LF (2026) The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered. BioScience : Online Early
McMillan JR, Sun J, Chaves LF and Armstrong PM (2025) Using mosquito and arbovirus data to computationally predict West Nile virus in unsampled areas of the Northeast United States. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf227.
O’Dell N, Bolling BG, Dacko N, Carr JT, Hambrick B, Chaves LF and McMillan JR (2025) Identifying environmental drivers of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus abundance in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex using Random Forest modeling. Journal of Medical Entomology 62(4): 789-799.
Valdés-Díaz S*, Tuñón R*, Castillo D*, Sanchez A*, Virola-Vasquez B*, Corro PE, Serrano-Peraza F*, Zachrisson B, Loaiza J, Chang R, Chaves LF, 2025. Ensemble Distribution Modeling of the Globally Invasive Asian Cycad Scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi, 1977 (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Insects 16(10): 1016 # This paper was crafted as a pedagogical experiment in a project based graduate class in the entomology masters program at Universidad de Panama.
Simons AP**, Lenfestey A**, Chaves LF. 2025. Density-dependence and different dimensions of changing weather shape adult abundance patterns of common mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases 7(1): 100242. ##This paper is with undergraduate students from the College and the School of Public Health at Indiana University
Chaves LF, Friberg MD, Pascual M, Calzada JE, Luckhart S, Bergmann LR. 2024. Community-serving research addressing climate change impacts on vector-borne diseases. The Lancet Planetary Health: 8(5): e334-e341.
Gottdenker NL, Chaves LF. 2024. Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence. One Earth: 7(7): 1137-1141.
Khan S*, Simons A**, Campbell LM**, Claar NA**, Abel MG**, Chaves LF. 2024. Mosquito species diversity and abundance patterns in plots with contrasting land use and land cover in Bloomington, Indiana. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association: 40(2): 81-91.
Scavo NA, Juárez JG, Chaves LF, Fernandez NA, Carbajal E, Perkin J, Londono-Renteria, B, Hamer GL 2024. Little disease but lots of bites: social, urbanistic, mobility, and entomological risk factors of human exposure to Aedes aegypti in South Texas, U.S. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(10): e0011953
Cumbrera A*, Calzada JE, Chaves LF, Hurtado LA*.2024. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Malaria Transmission in the Autonomous Indigenous Regions of Panama, Central America, 2015–2022. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases 9(4):90.
Chaves LF, Gottdenker N, Runk JV, Bergmann LR. 2023. Reifications in disease ecology 2: Towards a decolonized pedagogy enabling science by, and for, the people. Capitalism Nature Socialism 34(3):48-65
Chaves LF, Runk JV, Bergmann LR, Gottdenker N. 2023. Reifications in disease ecology 1: Demystifying land use change in pathogen emergence. Capitalism Nature Socialism 34(2):23-39 Perfecto I,
Chaves LF, Fitch GM, Hajian-Forooshani Z, Iuliano B, Li K, Medina N, Morris J, Jiménez BO, Rivera-Salinas IS, Su C, Vandermeer J, White A, Williams-Guillén K. 2023. Looking beyond land-use and land-cover change: Zoonoses emerge in the agricultural matrix. One Earth 6(9):1131-1142.
Rhodes CG*, Chaves LF, Bergmann LR, Hamer GL. 2023. Ensemble Species Distribution Modeling of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae) in the continental United States. Journal of Medical Entomology: 60(4):664-679
Michaux M, Chan JM, Bergmann L, Chaves LF, Klinkenberg B, Jacobson K. 2023. Spatial cluster mapping and environmental modeling in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. World Journal of Gastroenterology 29(23):3688-3702.
Bergmann L, Chaves LF, O’Sullivan D, Wallace RG. 2023. Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12(5):195.
Chaves LF, Friberg MD, Hurtado LA*, Rodríguez RM, O'Sullivan D, Bergmann LR. 2022. Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 80:101161
Bergmann L, Chaves LF, Betz CR, Stein S, Wiedenfeld B, Wolf A, Wallace RG. 2022. Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative. Land 11(3):437 *Junior Scientist or Graduate Student ** Undergradaute and/or recent graduate
Koren O and Chaves LF (2026) The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered. BioScience : Online Early
McMillan JR, Sun J, Chaves LF and Armstrong PM (2025) Using mosquito and arbovirus data to computationally predict West Nile virus in unsampled areas of the Northeast United States. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf227.
O’Dell N, Bolling BG, Dacko N, Carr JT, Hambrick B, Chaves LF and McMillan JR (2025) Identifying environmental drivers of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus abundance in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex using Random Forest modeling. Journal of Medical Entomology 62(4): 789-799.
Valdés-Díaz S*, Tuñón R*, Castillo D*, Sanchez A*, Virola-Vasquez B*, Corro PE, Serrano-Peraza F*, Zachrisson B, Loaiza J, Chang R, Chaves LF, 2025. Ensemble Distribution Modeling of the Globally Invasive Asian Cycad Scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi, 1977 (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Insects 16(10): 1016 # This paper was crafted as a pedagogical experiment in a project based graduate class in the entomology masters program at Universidad de Panama.
Simons AP**, Lenfestey A**, Chaves LF. 2025. Density-dependence and different dimensions of changing weather shape adult abundance patterns of common mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases 7(1): 100242. ##This paper is with undergraduate students from the College and the School of Public Health at Indiana University
Chaves LF, Friberg MD, Pascual M, Calzada JE, Luckhart S, Bergmann LR. 2024. Community-serving research addressing climate change impacts on vector-borne diseases. The Lancet Planetary Health: 8(5): e334-e341.
Gottdenker NL, Chaves LF. 2024. Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence. One Earth: 7(7): 1137-1141.
Khan S*, Simons A**, Campbell LM**, Claar NA**, Abel MG**, Chaves LF. 2024. Mosquito species diversity and abundance patterns in plots with contrasting land use and land cover in Bloomington, Indiana. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association: 40(2): 81-91.
Scavo NA, Juárez JG, Chaves LF, Fernandez NA, Carbajal E, Perkin J, Londono-Renteria, B, Hamer GL 2024. Little disease but lots of bites: social, urbanistic, mobility, and entomological risk factors of human exposure to Aedes aegypti in South Texas, U.S. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(10): e0011953
Cumbrera A*, Calzada JE, Chaves LF, Hurtado LA*.2024. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Malaria Transmission in the Autonomous Indigenous Regions of Panama, Central America, 2015–2022. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases 9(4):90.
Chaves LF, Gottdenker N, Runk JV, Bergmann LR. 2023. Reifications in disease ecology 2: Towards a decolonized pedagogy enabling science by, and for, the people. Capitalism Nature Socialism 34(3):48-65
Chaves LF, Runk JV, Bergmann LR, Gottdenker N. 2023. Reifications in disease ecology 1: Demystifying land use change in pathogen emergence. Capitalism Nature Socialism 34(2):23-39 Perfecto I,
Chaves LF, Fitch GM, Hajian-Forooshani Z, Iuliano B, Li K, Medina N, Morris J, Jiménez BO, Rivera-Salinas IS, Su C, Vandermeer J, White A, Williams-Guillén K. 2023. Looking beyond land-use and land-cover change: Zoonoses emerge in the agricultural matrix. One Earth 6(9):1131-1142.
Rhodes CG*, Chaves LF, Bergmann LR, Hamer GL. 2023. Ensemble Species Distribution Modeling of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae) in the continental United States. Journal of Medical Entomology: 60(4):664-679
Michaux M, Chan JM, Bergmann L, Chaves LF, Klinkenberg B, Jacobson K. 2023. Spatial cluster mapping and environmental modeling in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. World Journal of Gastroenterology 29(23):3688-3702.
Bergmann L, Chaves LF, O’Sullivan D, Wallace RG. 2023. Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12(5):195.
Chaves LF, Friberg MD, Hurtado LA*, Rodríguez RM, O'Sullivan D, Bergmann LR. 2022. Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 80:101161
Bergmann L, Chaves LF, Betz CR, Stein S, Wiedenfeld B, Wolf A, Wallace RG. 2022. Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative. Land 11(3):437 *Junior Scientist or Graduate Student ** Undergradaute and/or recent graduate