Effects of host diversity on disease dynamics

Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 12-29

  Begon, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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