The predicted impact of resource provisioning on the epidemiological responses of different parasites.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic activities and natural events such as periodic tree masting can alter resource provisioning in the environment, directly affecting animals, and potentially impacting the spread of infectious diseases in wildlife. The impact of these additional resources on infectious diseases can manifest through different pathways, affecting host susceptibility, contact rate and host demography. To date however, empirical research has tended to examine these different pathways in isolation, for example by quantifying the effects of provisioning on host behaviour in the wild or changes in immune responses in controlled laboratory studies. Furthermore, while theory has investigated the interactions between these pathways, this work has focussed on a narrow subset of pathogen types, typically d

SUBMITTER: Erazo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9546467 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature