Influential disease foci in epidemics and underlying mechanisms: A field experiment and simulations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1854-1862

  Estep, Laura K ^a,b   Sackett, Kathryn E ^a   Mundt, Christopher C ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic; Fat tailed dispersal; Fungal pathogen; Initial outbreak focus; Local propagule deposition; Pathogen invasion; Puccinia striiformis; Simulation experiment; Stripe rust; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DOMINANCE; EPIDEMIC; PATHOGEN; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATION;

PUCCINIA STRIIFORMIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANIMAL; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; TRITICUM;

EID: 84907969246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1408.1     Document Type: Article

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