The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Phylogeography's objective—to understand the processes underlying the spatial and
temporal dimensions of genetic variation—underlies both the prominence and extensive …

What are the models used in phylogenetic analysis and what exactly is involved in Bayesian
evolutionary analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods? How can you …

Kingman's coalescent process opens the door for estimation of population genetics model
parameters from molecular sequences. One paramount parameter of interest is the effective …

The editors utilize their 50 years of combined experience in professional engagement with
the behaviour and ecology of wild felids to draw together a unique network of the world's …

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. It offers an easy-
to-follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. It focuses on recent …

Transportation infrastructures such as roads, railroads and canals can have major
environmental impacts. Ecological road effects include the destruction and fragmentation of …

The establishment of ecological networks (ENs) has been proposed as an ideal way to
counteract the increasing fragmentation of natural ecosystems and as a necessary …

Coalescent genealogy samplers attempt to estimate past qualities of a population, such as
its size, growth rate, patterns of gene flow or time of divergence from another population …

Rabies is a progressively fatal and incurable viral encephalitis caused by a lyssavirus
infection. Almost all of the 55 000 annual rabies deaths in humans result from infection with …