Local transmission processes and disease-driven host extinctions

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-217

  Best, Alex ^a   Webb, Steve ^b   Antonovics, Janis ^c   Boots, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Host parasite; Spatial structure; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXTINCTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; RARE SPECIES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859215638     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0111-7     Document Type: Article

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