The scaling of host density with richness affects the direction, shape, and detectability of diversity-disease relationships

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Mihaljevic, Joseph R ^a   Joseph, Maxwell B ^a   Orlofske, Sarah A ^a,b   Paull, Sara H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREND STUDY; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; HOST RANGE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE; HOST SPECIFICITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84901296455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097812     Document Type: Article

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