The community ecology of pathogens: Coinfection, coexistence and community composition

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 401-415

  Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Gross, Kevin ^b   Kendig, Amy E ^a   Lacroix, Christelle ^a   Mitchell, Charles E ^c   Mordecai, Erin A ^b,c   Power, Alison G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Community ecology; Disease ecology; Dispersal; Drift; Metacommunity; Metapopulation; Pathogen; Selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISEASE; DISPERSAL; INFECTIVITY; METAPOPULATION; PATHOGEN; SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MIXED INFECTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COINFECTION; ECOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84925787525     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12418     Document Type: Review

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