Spread of white-nose syndrome on a network regulated by geography and climate

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maher, Sean P ^a,b   Kramer, Andrew M ^a   Pulliam, J Tomlin ^a   Zokan, Marcus A ^a   Bowden, Sarah E ^a   Barton, Heather D ^a,c   Magori, Krisztian ^a,d   Drake, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GROVE CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIMULATION;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; CAVE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; HABITAT; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84871745221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2301     Document Type: Article

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