ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Experimental evidence of a pathogen invasion threshold.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Crowding reduces per-capita parasite infection risk in a butterfly host.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Five novel RNA viruses of the invasive big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala).Archives of virology · 2025Article
- Pathways linking nutrient enrichment, habitat structure, and parasitism to host-resource interactions.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Host density has limited effects on pathogen invasion, disease-induced declines and within-host infection dynamics across a landscape of disease.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- Timescale reverses the relationship between host density and infection risk.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Scalable Estimation of Epidemic Thresholds via Node Sampling.Sankhya. Series A. (2008) · 2022Article
- Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen.The American naturalist · 2020Article
- The Association between Virus Prevalence and Intercolonial Aggression Levels in the Yellow Crazy Ant,Insects · 2019Article
- Infection in patchy populations: Contrasting pathogen invasion success and dispersal at varying times since host colonization.Evolution letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
Host density thresholds to pathogen invasion separate regions of parameter space corresponding to endemic and disease-free states. The host density threshold is a central concept in theoretical epidemiology and a common target of human and wildlife disease control programmes, but there is mixed evidence supporting the existence of thresholds, especially in wildlife populations or for pathogens with complex transmission modes (e.g. environmental transmission). Here, we demonstrate the existence of a host density threshold for an environmentally transmitted pathogen by combining an epidemiological model with a microcosm experiment. Experimental epidemics consisted of replicate populations of naive crustacean zooplankton (
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