An agent-based model of red colobus resources and disease dynamics implicates key resource sites as hot spots of disease transmission

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2491-2500

  Bonnell, Tyler R ^a   Sengupta, Raja R ^a   Chapman, Colin A ^b,c   Goldberg, Tony L ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Kibale National Park; Red cowlobus; SEIR model; Spatially explicit agent based model; Uganda

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; NATIONAL PARKS; RED COWLOBUS; SEIR MODEL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; UGANDA;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARKS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE; PRIMATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA];

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SP.; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; PROCOLOBUS RUFOMITRATUS;

EID: 77956183057     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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