A spatial stochastic model simulating a scabies epidemic and coyote population dynamics

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 41-52

  Leung, Brian ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Dispersal; Host evolution; Parasites; Sarcoptes scabiei

Indexed keywords

CANID; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

CANIS LATRANS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI;

EID: 0348077458     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00117-0     Document Type: Article

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