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

ABSTRACT: Disease models have provided conflicting evidence as to whether spatial heterogeneity promotes or impedes pathogen persistence. Moreover, there has been limited theoretical investigation into how animal movement behavior interacts with the spatial organization of resources (e.g., clustered, random, uniform) across a landscape to affect infectious disease dynamics. Importantly, spatial heterogeneity of resources can sometimes lead to nonlinear or counterintuitive outcomes depending on the host and pathogen system. There is a clear need to develop a general theoretical framework that could be used to create testable predictions for specific host-pathogen systems. Here, we develop an individual-based model integrated with movement ecology approaches to investigate how host movement behaviors

SUBMITTER: White LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature