ArticleEcology and evolution2017
Seasonal variation in daily patterns of social contacts in the European badger
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- The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Review
- Extra Territorial Excursions by European badgers are not limited by age, sex or season.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Descriptive analysis of horse movement networks during the 2015 equestrian season in Ontario, Canada.PloS one · 2019Article
- Social structure contains epidemics and regulates individual roles in disease transmission in a group-living mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Split between two worlds: automated sensing reveals links between above- and belowground social networks in a free-living mammal.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Contact networks structured by sex underpin sex-specific epidemiology of infection.Ecology letters · 2018Article
- Seasonal variation in daily patterns of social contacts in the European badgerEcology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Social interactions among hosts influence the persistence and spread of infectious pathogens. Daily and seasonal variation in the frequency and type of social interactions will play an important role in disease epidemiology and, alongside other factors, may have an influence on wider disease dynamics by causing seasonal forcing of infection, especially if the seasonal variation experienced by a population is considerable. We explored temporal variation in within-group contacts in a high-density population of European badgers
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