Demography, education, and research trends in the interdisciplinary field of disease ecology.

ABSTRACT: Micro- and macroparasites are a leading cause of mortality for humans, animals, and plants, and there is great need to understand their origins, transmission dynamics, and impacts. Disease ecology formed as an interdisciplinary field in the 1970s to fill this need and has recently rapidly grown in size and influence. Because interdisciplinary fields integrate diverse scientific expertise and training experiences, understanding their composition and research priorities is often difficult. Here, for the first time, we quantify the composition and educational experiences of a subset of disease ecology practitioners and identify topical trends in published research. We combined a large survey of self-declared disease ecologists with a literature synthesis involving machine-learning topic detec

SUBMITTER: Brandell EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717357 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature