Parasite spill-back from domestic hosts may induce an Allee effect in wildlife hosts
The exchange of native pathogens between wild and domesticated animals can lead to novel disease dynamics. A simple model reveals that the spill-back of native parasites from domestic to wild hosts may cause a demographic Allee effect. Because parasite spill-over and spill-back decouples the abundan...
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2012
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