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Landscape epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases in natural and human-altered ecosystems.
Meentemeyer, Ross K; Haas, Sarah E; Václavík, Tomás.
Affiliation
  • Meentemeyer RK; Center for Applied GIScience, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA. rkmeente@uncc.edu
Annu Rev Phytopathol ; 50: 379-402, 2012.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22681449
ABSTRACT
A central challenge to studying emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a landscape dilemma Our best empirical understanding of disease dynamics occurs at local scales, whereas pathogen invasions and management occur over broad spatial extents. The burgeoning field of landscape epidemiology integrates concepts and approaches from disease ecology with the macroscale lens of landscape ecology, enabling examination of disease across spatiotemporal scales in complex environmental settings. We review the state of the field and describe analytical frontiers that show promise for advancement, focusing on natural and human-altered ecosystems. Concepts fundamental to practicing landscape epidemiology are discussed, including spatial scale, static versus dynamic modeling, spatially implicit versus explicit approaches, selection of ecologically meaningful variables, and inference versus prediction. We highlight studies that have advanced the field by incorporating multiscale analyses, landscape connectivity, and dynamic modeling. Future research directions include understanding disease as a component of interacting ecological disturbances, scaling up the ecological impacts of disease, and examining disease dynamics as a coupled human-natural system.
Subject(s)

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Plant Diseases / Plants / Ecosystem Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Limits: Animals / Humans Language: En Journal: Annu Rev Phytopathol Year: 2012 Document type: Article Affiliation country: United States

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Plant Diseases / Plants / Ecosystem Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Limits: Animals / Humans Language: En Journal: Annu Rev Phytopathol Year: 2012 Document type: Article Affiliation country: United States