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Impact of Infectious Disease Agents on the Population Growth and Geographical Distribution of Animals

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Population Biology of Infectious Diseases

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Infectious disease agents may cause considerable mortality in animal populations, especially at high population densities. Data on invertebrates suggest that this mortality may play a role in the regulation of their populations, but data on vertebrates suggest that most of this mortality is compensatory to other mortality and does not play any role in population regulation. Disease in introduced animals, or due to introduced agents, and disease due to agents maintained in one species of host, but pathogenic in other species, may be exceptions. Field data on whether disease agents produce selective mortality and on whether such mortality is additive or compensatory is critically needed.

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Holmes, J.C. (1982). Impact of Infectious Disease Agents on the Population Growth and Geographical Distribution of Animals. In: Anderson, R.M., May, R.M. (eds) Population Biology of Infectious Diseases. Dahlem Workshop Reports, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68635-1_3

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