Too much of a good thing: Resource provisioning alters infectious disease dynamics in wildlife

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Becker, Daniel J ^a   Hall, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartmental models; Feline leukaemia virus; Host pathogen interactions; Supplemental feeding; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; URBANIZATION; VIRUS; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FELINE LEUKEMIA; FOOD CHAIN; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IMMUNOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; URBANIZATION; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, FELINE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84906057206     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0309     Document Type: Article

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