Movement can mediate temporal mismatches between resource availability and biological events in host-pathogen interactions.

ABSTRACT: Global change is shifting the timing of biological events, leading to temporal mismatches between biological events and resource availability. These temporal mismatches can threaten species' populations. Importantly, temporal mismatches not only exert strong pressures on the population dynamics of the focal species, but can also lead to substantial changes in pairwise species interactions such as host-pathogen systems. We adapted an established individual-based model of host-pathogen dynamics. The model describes a viral agent in a social host, while accounting for the host's explicit movement decisions. We aimed to investigate how temporal mismatches between seasonal resource availability and host life-history events affect host-pathogen coexistence, that is, disease persistence. Seasonal

SUBMITTER: Kurschner T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131764 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature