Counterintuitive scaling between population abundance and local density: Implications for modelling transmission of infectious diseases in bat populations
Abstract
Models of host–pathogen interactions help to explain infection dynamics in wildlife populations and to predict and mitigate the risk of zoonotic spillover. Insights from models inherently depend on the way contacts between hosts are modelled, and crucially, how transmission scales with animal density.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 28, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1111/1365-2656.13634
Entities
People
- Alison J. Peel
- Hamish McCallum
- Maureen K Kessler
- Peggy Eby
- Raina K. Plowright
- Remy Brooks
- Tamika Lunn
Organizations
- Australian Government
- Australian Research Council
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Griffith University
- Montana State University
- National Science Foundation
- Queensland Government
- United States Department of Agriculture
- University of New South Wales