Environmental fluctuations lead to predictability in Sin Nombre hantavirus outbreaks

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1691-1701

  Luis, Angela D ^a,b,c   Douglass, Richard J ^d   Mills, James N ^e   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical host density; Deer mice; Delayed density dependence; Ecological cascade; Ecological forecasting; Peromyscus maniculatus; Sin Nombre virus; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORECASTING METHOD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RODENT; STOCHASTICITY; VIRUS;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

EID: 84930852651     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1910.1     Document Type: Article

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