The shape of the contact–density function matters when modelling parasite transmission in fluctuating populations

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Borremans, Benny ^a,b,c   Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Hens, Niel ^a,c   Leirs, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contact rates; Disease invasion; Disease persistence; Mass action; Nonlinearity; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035076044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171308     Document Type: Article

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