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The relationship between host density and parasite transmission is central to the effectiveness of many disease management strategies.
These issues of spatial scale and the relationship between host density and pathogen transmission have strong management implications.
Few datasets exist for natural systems that address the relationship between host density and pathogen transmission [but for timeseries analyses see: 46], [47], [48].
In this study, we use a 19-year dataset of brucellosis in Wyoming elk to investigate the relationship between host density and disease dynamics.
Collecting host and pathogen data at the appropriate spatial scale is critical to estimating the relationship between host density and pathogen transmission.
The relationship between host density and parasite transmission is fundamental to understanding infectious disease dynamics as well as implementing control strategies [1], [2].
In this analysis, input parameters were the ratio between host densities and the preferences of ticks towards each host.
The relationship between host density, nutrient stoichiometry, and herbivore abundance is particularly interesting in light of recent extensions of Lotka-Volterra predator-prey models that explicitly incorporate stoichiometric food quality.
No clear correlation exists between host density (as estimated by capture frequency) and seropositivity, but seropositive animals were more often taken on northerly facing trap lines (χ²=12.68, p=4.10-4) than southerly facing ones (χ²=0.86, p=0.35).
On the other hand, fragmentation of host habitat may reduce host population size, limit host dispersal, and alter host densities and diversity (Daszac et al. 2001; Li et al. 2012), reducing encounter rate between hosts and pathogens and the transmission rate of the pathogen.
On Kingman and Palmyra, there was no significant relationship between disease prevalence and host density, whereas disease prevalence was negatively related to host density on Tabuaeran and Kiritimati (Figure 6).
