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Unhealthy herds and the predator spreader: understanding when predation increases disease incidence and prevalence
2022-07-04
Abstract excerpt
Disease ecologists now recognize the limitation behind examining host-parasite interactions in isolation: community members – especially predators – dramatically affect host-parasite dynamics. Although the initial paradigm was that predation should reduce disease in prey populations (“healthy herds hypothesis”), researchers have realized that predators sometimes increase disease in their prey. These “predator-spre...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d79f1129-38dd-5123-aec4-7a72651cb40c
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.165694329.91407425/v1