Using social network measures in wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology, and management

BioScience

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 245-257

  Silk, Matthew J ^a   Croft, Darren P ^a   Delahay, Richard J ^b   Hodgson, David J ^a   Boots, Mike ^a   Weber, Nicola ^a   McDONALD, Robbie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease Management; Dynamic Network; Modularity; Network Metric; Super Spreader

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019887314     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw175     Document Type: Review

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