Success, failure and ambiguity of the dilution effect among competitors

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 916-926

  Strauss, Alexander T ^a   Civitello, David J ^b   Cáceres, Carla E ^c   Hall, Spencer R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplification; Daphnia; Dilution effect; Disease ecology; Epidemic; Friendly competition; Modelling; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRUSTACEAN; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIC; HOST SPECIFICITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DAPHNIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DAPHNIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METSCHNIKOWIA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METSCHNIKOWIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84938770149     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12468     Document Type: Article

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