1. Understanding both contact and probability of transmission given contact are key to managing wildlife disease. However, wildlife disease research tends to focus on contact heterogeneity, in part be
Supplemental material for Ryan SJ, Walsh PD (2011) Consequences of Non-Intervention for Infectious Disease in African Great Apes. PLoS ONE 6(12): e29030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029030
Host–parasite models are typically constructed under either a microparasite or macroparasite paradigm. However, this has long been recognized as a false dichotomy because many infectious disease age
Attraction sites are frequently mentioned as important for environmental pathogen transmission and spillover, yet their role in wildlife disease dynamics is often unsatisfactorily substantiated. Here