Linking community and disease ecology: The impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1604, 2012, Pages 2807-2813

  Roche, Benjamin ^a,b,c   Dobson, Andrew P ^d   Guégan, Jean François ^c,e   Rohani, Pejman ^b,f  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e French School of Public Health   (France)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Community epidemiology; Density dependent infectious diseases; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT LOSS; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866116810     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0364     Document Type: Article

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