Duelling timescales of host movement and disease recovery determine invasion of disease in structured populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 587-595

  Cross, Paul C ^a,b   Lloyd Smith, James O ^a   Johnson, Philip L F ^a   Getz, Wayne M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Disease invasion; Dispersal; Epidemiological modelling; Metapopulation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOVEMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 20444420879     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00760.x     Document Type: Review

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