Mapping disease transmission risk is crucial in public and animal health for evidence based
decision-making. Ecology and epidemiology are highly related disciplines that may …

Most infectious diseases in animals are not distributed randomly. Instead, diseases in
livestock and wildlife are predictable in terms of the geography, time, and species affected …

Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease
emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are …

A revolutionary book that presents analytical tools for understanding why a particular
disease is transmitted within a specific geographic area. A. Townsend Peterson, one of the …

We summarize the characteristics of 1,006 cases of human plague occurring in the United
States over 113 years, beginning with the first documented case in 1900. Three distinct eras …

Caused by Yersinia pestis, plague ravaged the world through three known pandemics: the
First or the Justinianic (6th–8th century); the Second (beginning with the Black Death during …

Ecological niche models are useful tools to infer potential spatial and temporal distributions
in vector species and to measure epidemiological risk for infectious diseases such as the …

The purpose of spatial modelling in animal and public health is three-fold: describing
existing spatial patterns of risk, attempting to understand the biological mechanisms that …

Global change is causing an unprecedented restructuring of ecosystems, with the spread of
invasive species being a key driver. While population declines of native species due to …

Biogeography is an implicit and fundamental component of almost every dimension of
modern biology, from natural selection and speciation to invasive species and biodiversity …