Forest species diversity reduces disease risk in a generalist plant pathogen invasion

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1108-1116

  Haas, Sarah E ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^b   Rizzo, David M ^c   Meentemeyer, Ross K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Departments of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology and Statistics Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Emerging infectious disease; Forest ecosystem; Landscape epidemiology; Phytophthora ramorum; Spatial autocorrelation; Species diversity; Sudden oak death; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENERALIST; HOST RANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITIC DISEASE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM;

EID: 80053645705     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01679.x     Document Type: Article

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