Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics.

Abstract

1. Community Epidemiology 2. Extending the principles of community ecology to address the epidemiology of host-pathogen systems 3. Community ecology meets epidemiology: the case of Lyme disease 4. Microbial community ecology of tick-borne human pathogens 5. Disease dynamics in plant communities 6. Host selection and its role in transmission of arboviral encephalitides 7. Freshwater community interactions and malaria 8. The community ecology of Vibrio cholerae 9. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem 10. Shifting roles of abiotic and biotic regulation of a multi-host parasite following disturbance 11. Urbanization and disease in amphibians 12. Spatial-temporal dynamics of rabies in ecological communities 13. The emergence of Nipah and Hendra virus: pathogen dynamics across a wildlife-livestock-human continuum 14. Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague