title: Ecological niche modelling and understanding the geography of disease transmission.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States of America. town@ku.edu
authors.forename: A Townsend
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Peterson