How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 654-664

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Dynamics; Host; Infectious; Model; Pollution; Population; Stress; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HOST SPECIFICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037742681     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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