title: Modeling spatial spread of west nile virus and impact of directional dispersal of birds.
abstract: A patchy model for the spatial spread of West Nile virus is formulated and analyzed. The basic reproduction number is calculated and com- pared for different long-range dispersal patterns of birds, and simulations are carried out to demonstrate discontinuous or jump spatial spread of the virus when the birds' long-range dispersal dominates the nearest neighborhood interaction and diffusion of mosquitoes and birds.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada. rsliu@mathstat.yorku.ca.
authors.forename: Rongsong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jiangping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shuai
authors.forename: Jianhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Huaiping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu