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Transient Disease Dynamics Across Ecological Scales by Yun Tao; Jessica L. Hite; Kevin D. Lafferty; David J. D. Earn; Nita Bharti is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Transient Disease Dynamics Across Ecological Scales about?

Analyses of transient dynamics are critical to understanding infectious disease transmission and persistence. Identifying and predicting transients across scales, from within-host to community-level patterns, plays an important role in combating ongoing epidemics and mitigating the risk of future outbreaks. Moreover, greater emphases on non-asymptotic processes will enable timely evaluations of wildlife and human diseases and lead to improved surveillance efforts, preventive responses, and intervention strategies. Here, we explore the contributions of transient analyses in recent models spanning the fields of epidemiology, movement ecology, and parasitology. In addition to their roles in predicting epidemic patterns and endemic outbreaks, we explore transients in the contexts of pathogen transmission, resistance, and avoidance at various scales of the ecological hierarchy. Examples illustrate how (i) transient movement dynamics at the individual host level can modify opportunities for transmission events over time; (ii) within-host energetic processes often lead to transient dynamics in immunity, pathogen load, and transmission potential; (iii) transient connectivity between discre

Who reads Transient Disease Dynamics Across Ecological Scales?

Author

Yun Tao; Jessica L. Hite; Kevin D. Lafferty; David J. D. Earn; Nita Bharti

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)