Interspecific contact and competition may affect the strength and direction of disease-diversity relationships for directly transmitted microparasites

American Naturalist

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 480-494

  O’Regan, Suzanne M ^a,b   Vinson, John E ^a   Park, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dilution effect; Disease ecology; Epidemiology; Host parasite interactions; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FITNESS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENERALIST; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFLUENZA; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; TROPHIC INTERACTION; VIRUS;

MORBILLIVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RABIES VIRUS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA VIRUS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA VIRUSES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84943745093     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: 15375323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/682721     Document Type: Article

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