2024 journal article

Nonrandom foraging and resource distributions affect the relationships between host density, contact rates and parasite transmission

ECOLOGY LETTERS, 27(3).

By: Z. Gajewski  n, P. McEmurray, J. Wojdak*, C. McGregor*, L. Zeller  n, H. Cooper n, L. Belden *, S. Hopkins n 

author keywords: agent-based model; contact rates; disease dynamics; foraging behaviour; resource distributions
TL;DR: Overall, three density-independent mechanisms by which host behaviour and resource distributions alter contact rate functions and pathogen transmission are described. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: March 25, 2024

Abstract