Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology

GF Albery, L Kirkpatrick, JA Firth… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Social network analysis has achieved remarkable popularity in disease ecology, and is
sometimes carried out without investigating spatial heterogeneity. Many investigations into …

Evolution of pathogen tolerance and emerging infections: A missing experimental paradigm

S Seal, G Dharmarajan, I Khan - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Researchers worldwide are repeatedly warning us against future zoonotic diseases
resulting from humankind's insurgence into natural ecosystems. The same zoonotic …

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

CX Cunningham, S Comte, H McCallum… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …

Echinococcoses in Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan: old diseases in the new millennium

M Borhani, S Fathi, E Darabi, F Jalousian… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Echinococcosis is considered a cosmopolitan zoonosis caused by different species of small
taeniid tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus and is regarded as a neglected zoonosis …

Disease outbreak thresholds emerge from interactions between movement behavior, landscape structure, and epidemiology

LA White, JD Forester, ME Craft - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Disease models have provided conflicting evidence as to whether spatial heterogeneity
promotes or impedes pathogen persistence. Moreover, there has been limited theoretical …

From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease

GF Albery, I Turilli, MB Joseph, J Foley, CH Frere… - Fire Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Background Fire strongly affects animals' behavior, population dynamics, and environmental
surroundings, which in turn are likely to affect their immune systems and exposure to …

Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases in French Guiana: Transdisciplinarity does matter to tackle new emerging …

B de Thoisy, O Duron, L Epelboin, L Musset… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract French Guiana is a European ultraperipheric region located on the northern Atlantic
coast of South America. It constitutes an important forested region for biological conservation …

HexSim: a modeling environment for ecology and conservation

NH Schumaker, A Brookes - Landscape Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Simulation models are increasingly used in both theoretical and applied studies to
explore system responses to natural and anthropogenic forcing functions, develop …

Disentangling wildlife–cattle interactions in multi‐host tuberculosis scenarios: systematic review and meta‐analysis

EM Ferreira, EL Duarte, MV Cunha, A Mira… - Mammal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological interactions involving wildlife (wild mammals) and cattle Bos taurus are
considered fundamental drivers of animal tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis …

The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease

MJ Silk, NH Fefferman - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2021 - Springer
Social interactions are required for the direct transmission of infectious diseases.
Consequently, the social network structure of populations plays a key role in shaping …