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An agent‐based movement model to assess the impact of landscape fragmentation on disease transmission
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tracey, Jeff A. Bevins, Sarah N. Woude, Sue Vande Crooks, Kevin R. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Landscape changes can result in habitat fragmentation and reduced landscape connectivity, limiting the ability of animals to move across space and altering infectious disease dynamics in wildlife. In this study, we develop and implement an agent-based model to assess the impacts of animal movement behavior and landscape structure on disease dynamics. We model a susceptible/infective disease state system applicable to the transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus in bobcats in the urbanized landscape of coastal southern California. Our agent-based model incorporates animal movement behavior, pathogen prevalence, transmission probability, and habitat fragmentation to evaluate how these variables influence disease spread in urbanizing landscapes. We performed a sensitivity analysis by simulating the system under 4200 different combinations of model parameters and evaluating disease transmission outcomes. Our model reveals that host movement behavior and response to landscape features play a pivotal role . |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 24 |
| Page Count | 24 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1890/ES13-00376.1 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3104&context=icwdm_usdanwrc |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |