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Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology University of Antwerp
Social network analysis has achieved remarkable popularity in disease ecology, and is sometimes carried out without investigating spatial heterogeneity. Many investigations into sociality and disease may nevertheless be subject to cryptic spatial variation, so ignoring spatial processes can limit inference regarding disease dynamics. Disease analyses can gain breadth, power, and reliability from incorporating both spatial and social behavioural ...
Uterine microbial ecology and disease in cattle : a review Ghent University
Due to the critical contribution of the uterine-associated microbiota in reproductive health, physiology, and performance, culture-independent methods have been increasingly employed to unravel key aspects of microbial ecology in the uterus of cattle. Nowadays, we know that bacterial diversity is crucial to maintain uterine health, however, there is still no consensus on the exact composition of a healthy uterine microbiota (or eubiosis). ...
Incidence and ecology of rust disease (Hemileia vastatrix) on wild Coffea arabica in moist Ethiopian mountain forests KU Leuven
Coffea arabica L. (Family Rubiaceae) remains as a backbone of Ethiopian economy and plays an important and significant role in the country's economy and employment opportunity and accounted for 5 and 25 %, respectively. Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea arabica has great coffee genetic diversity in Southwestern part of the country in the Afromontane forests, which will be a potential for identifying wild Coffea arabica resistant to Coffee leaf ...
Epidemiology, ecology and management of rhizogenic agrobacteria, causative agents of hairy root disease in vegetable crops. KU Leuven
Crazy roots, a disease caused by Agrobacterium rhizogenes, is becoming a major problem in the Flemish greenhouse horticulture, in particular in the cultivation of tomato, cucumber and eggplant.A.rhizogenes infection results in an extensive development of the root system and in a strong vegetative growth of the plant, which is detrimental for fruit development. During the last few years crazy roots has spread fast in the Flemish horticulture, ...
Pathogen pollution across spatial scales : a primer on disease ecology of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in Europe Ghent University
Spatial disaggregation of tick occurrence and ecology at a local scale as a preliminary step for spatial surveillance of tick-borne diseases: general framework and health implications in Belgium Institute of Tropical Medicine
BACKGROUND: The incidence of tick-borne diseases is increasing in Europe. Sub national information on tick distribution, ecology and vector status is often lacking. However, precise location of infection risk can lead to better targeted prevention measures, surveillance and control. METHODS: In this context, the current paper compiled geolocated tick occurrences in Belgium, a country where tick-borne disease has received little attention, in ...