Search results for "Eco-epidemiology"

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Diseased Social Predators

2017

Social predators benefit from cooperation in the form of increased hunting success, but may be at higher risk of disease infection due to living in groups. Here, we use mathematical modeling to investigate the impact of disease transmission on the population dynamics benefits provided by group hunting. We consider a predator-prey model with foraging facilitation that can induce strong Allee effects in the predators. We extend this model by an infectious disease spreading horizontally and vertically in the predator population. The model is a system of three nonlinear differential equations. We analyze the equilibrium points and their stability as well as one- and two-parameter bifurcations. …

Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)0106 biological sciences0301 basic medicinegenetic structuresPopulation DynamicsBasic Reproduction NumberBiochemistry01 natural sciencesCommunicable DiseasePredationMathematical modelBehavioral ecologyCooperative BehaviorPredatorMathematical ConceptGeneral Environmental ScienceAllee effectBehavioral ecology; Eco-epidemiology; Foraging facilitation; Group living; Hunting cooperation; Mathematical model; Neuroscience (all); Immunology; Mathematics (all); Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology (all); 2300; Pharmacology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all); Computational Theory and Mathematicseducation.field_of_studyEco-epidemiologyEcologyGeneral Neuroscience010601 ecologyGroup livingComputational Theory and MathematicsFacilitationsymbolsLinear ModelGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesFood ChainGeneral MathematicsPopulationForagingImmunologyBehavioral ecologyBiologyCommunicable DiseasesModels BiologicalGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology03 medical and health sciencessymbols.namesakeSettore MAT/08 - Analisi NumericaAnimalsMathematics (all)educationSocial BehaviorPharmacologyPopulation DynamicNeuroscience (all)Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)2300AnimalHunting cooperationSmall population sizeMathematical Concepts030104 developmental biologyForaging facilitationAgricultural and Biological Sciences (all)Predatory BehaviorLinear Models
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Research data of article: "Sympatric Ixodes-tick species: pattern of distribution and pathogen transmission within wild rodent populations"

2018

Longitudinal monitoring of bank voles as well as their ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Central Finland, carried out in 2012.

parasitologyvector-borne diseasesparasitic diseaseseco-epidemiologydisease ecologyecologybacterial infections and mycosesticks
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Eco-epidemiology of tick- and rodent-borne pathogens in boreal forests

2017

Infectious diseases are amongst the ten major causes of human mortality worldwide, 60% of them being animal-borne. Variations of abiotic and biotic conditions are likely to modify the transmission of parasites and pathogens within reservoir species, and, as a consequence, alter the zoonotic risk for human. My thesis aims at elucidating the dynamics and mechanisms of the maintenance of ticks, tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) and the Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) in the reservoir host, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus, BV). In Northern Europe, tick-borne diseases are growing in importance to human because of the latitudinal expansion of the tick Ixodes ricinus. Field monitoring revealed that I. ricinus…

reservoirhantaviruksetPuumala hantavirusmetsämyyräjyrsijäteco-epidemiologymyyrätzoonoositpuutiaisetpunkitekologiaPuumala-viruspopulaatioekologiaBorrelia-bakteeritmetsäekosysteemittaudinaiheuttajatboreaalinen vyöhykeparasitic diseasesMyodes glareolusdisease ecologyisäntäeläimetBorrelia burgdorferi s.ltick-borne pathogensepidemiologialeviäminen
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