“…While species extinctions and extirpations have long been attributed to habitat loss, climate change, invasive species, and overharvesting (Pimm, Russell, Gittleman, & Brooks, 1995; Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, & Losos, 1998), only lately have we considered infectious diseases, which can interact with these other threats, as a force that can shape biodiversity (Smith, Sax, & Lafferty, 2006; Wilcove et al., 1998). Recently, rates and severity of infectious disease outbreaks have increased (Daszak, Cunningham, & Hyatt, 2000; Jones et al., 2008; Smith, Acevedo‐Whitehouse, & Pedersen, 2009) across taxa (Daszak et al., 1999; Martel et al., 2013; McCallum & Jones, 2006), prompting an urgent need to explore the effects that pathogens can have on biodiversity by evaluating the responses of hosts to pathogen across varying environmental conditions.…”