The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

2008/07/01 by S. Davis, Stephen Davis, P. Trapman +7 · 4 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Medicine · #Abundance (ecology) #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Basic reproduction number #Biology #Demography #Disease #Ecology #Geography #Infectious disease (medical specialty) #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Medicine #Metapopulation #Percolation (cognitive psychology) #Percolation theory #Percolation threshold #Physics #Plague (disease) #Population #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research #Yersinia pestis

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