ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2019
An Ecological Framework for Modeling the Geography of Disease Transmission.
Review in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Ability of a dynamical climate sensitive disease model to reproduce historical Rift Valley Fever outbreaks over Africa.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Suitability of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) in the Black Sea basin through the scope of distribution modelling.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is widely employed in ecology to predict species' potential geographic distributions in relation to their environmental constraints and is rapidly becoming the gold-standard method for disease risk mapping. However, given the biological complexity of disease systems, the traditional ENM framework requires reevaluation. We provide an overview of the application of ENM to disease systems and propose a theoretical framework based on the biological properties of both hosts and parasites to produce reliable outputs resembling disease system distributions. Additionally, we discuss the differences between biological considerations when implementing ENM for distributional ecology and epidemiology. This new framework will help the field of disease ecology and applications of biogeography in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
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