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Resource-driven encounters among consumers and implications for the spread of infectious disease

Animals share a variety of common resources, which can be a major driver of conspecific encounter rates. In this work, we implement a spatially explicit mathematical model for resource visitation behaviour in order to examine how changes in resource availability can influence the rate of encounters...

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Autores principales: Borchering, Rebecca K., Bellan, Steve E., Flynn, Jason M., Pulliam, Juliet R. C., McKinley, Scott A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0555