An emerging infectious disease triggering large-scale hyperpredation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Moleón, Marcos ^a   Almaraz, Pablo ^b   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; HOST; HYPERPREDATION; LAGOVIRUS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PROBABILITY; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 48449101677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002307     Document Type: Article

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