Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2016, Pages E3359-E3364

  Cohen, Jeremy M ^a   Civitello, David J ^a   Brace, Amber J ^a   Feichtinger, Erin M ^a   Ortega, C Nicole ^a   Richardson, Jason C ^a   Sauer, Erin L ^a   Liu, Xuan ^b   Rohr, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycosis; Dilution effect; Ecology; Lyme disease; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HOST; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; VETERINARY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84974815383     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521657113     Document Type: Article

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