Format:
120, LXXIII Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Content:
Infectious diseases are an increasing threat to biodiversity and human health. Therefore, developing a general understanding of the drivers shaping host-pathogen dynamics is of key importance in both ecological and epidemiological research. Disease dynamics are driven by a variety of interacting processes such as individual host behaviour, spatiotemporal resource availability or pathogen traits like virulence and transmission. External drivers such as global change may modify the system conditions and, thus, the disease dynamics. Despite their importance, many of these drivers are often simplified and aggregated in epidemiological models and the interactions among multiple drivers are neglected. In my thesis, I investigate disease dynamics using a mechanistic approach that includes both bottom-up effects - from landscape dynamics to individual movement behaviour - as well as top-down effects - from pathogen virulence on host density and contact rates. To this end, I extended an established spatially explicit individual-based model ...
Note:
publikationsbasierte Dissertation
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2022
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Kürschner, Tobias Disease transmission and persistence in dynamic landscapes Potsdam, 2022
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Author information:
Grimm, Volker 1958-
Author information:
Blaum, Niels 1970-
