Evidence of the importance of host habitat use in predicting the dilution effect of wild boar for deer exposure to Anaplasma spp.

PloS One
Agustín Estrada-PeñaJosé de la Fuente

Abstract

Foci of tick-borne pathogens occur at fine spatial scales, and depend upon a complex arrangement of factors involving climate, host abundance and landscape composition. It has been proposed that the presence of hosts that support tick feeding but not pathogen multiplication may dilute the transmission of the pathogen. However, models need to consider the spatial component to adequately explain how hosts, ticks and pathogens are distributed into the landscape. In this study, a novel, lattice-derived, behavior-based, spatially-explicit model was developed to test how changes in the assumed perception of different landscape elements affect the outcome of the connectivity between patches and therefore the dilution effect. The objective of this study was to explain changes in the exposure rate (ER) of red deer to Anaplasma spp. under different configurations of suitable habitat and landscape fragmentation in the presence of variable densities of the potentially diluting host, wild boar. The model showed that the increase in habitat fragmentation had a deep impact on Habitat Sharing Ratio (HSR), a parameter describing the amount of habitat shared by red deer and wild boar, weighted by the probability of the animals to remain together...Continue Reading

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Citations

Mar 17, 2010·Journal of Theoretical Biology·Christopher P Brooks, Haimeng Zhang
Jan 31, 2012·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·Francisco Ruiz-FonsJosé de la Fuente
Jun 5, 2012·Die Naturwissenschaften·Pelayo Acevedo, Raimundo Real
Feb 6, 2017·Parasites & Vectors·Rebecca S LevineUriel D Kitron
Aug 26, 2017·Experimental & Applied Acarology·F ValcárcelA S Olmeda
Aug 12, 2021·Journal of the Royal Society, Interface·Olivia TardyPatrick A Leighton

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