Ecological niche modelling and understanding the geography of disease transmission.
Methods currently used to characterise geographic patterns of disease transmission usually involve loss of resolution and do not take into account the fine-scale ecological variation that underlies transmission patterns. A new suite of tools (ecological niche modelling) that permits fine-scale characterisation of geographic patterns without loss of resolution, and forecasting of invasive potential and effects of changing climate and land use on species' distributions is presented.
Peterson
A Townsend
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Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States of America. town@ku.edu