Mapping Disease Transmission Risk
Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology
by A. Townsend Peterson
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781421414737 |
| eText ISBN | 9781421414744 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Publishing Year | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 224 |
Mapping Disease Transmission Risk: Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology synthesizes twelve years of research by A. Townsend Peterson to integrate ecological and biogeographic factors into spatial disease transmission models.
The book conceptualizes disease transmission areas as species distributions shaped by underlying environmental drivers rather than simple geographic locations. Peterson explores distributional ecology, contrasting multilayer ecological data approaches with methods that merely plot recorded disease cases or absences.
Addressed to seasoned epidemiologists and public health experts, this volume outlines the technical foundations of ecological niche models rather than mechanistic models to evaluate transmission risk.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Distributional Ecology
Chapter 2: General Conceptual Framework for Species’ Distributions
Chapter 3: Status of Data for Understanding Disease Distributions
Chapter 4: Current Tools for Understanding Disease Distributions
Part II: Disease Modeling Basics
Chapter 5: Modifications to the Basic Framework
Chapter 6: Modeling Components versus Outcomes
Chapter 7: Space-Only versus Space-and-Environment Models
Part III: Preparing the Data
Chapter 8: Garbage-In-Garbage-Out Principle
Chapter 9: Assembling Occurrence Data
Chapter 10: Assembling Environmental Data
Chapter 11: Study Areas and BAM
Part IV: Developing Models
Chapter 12: Calibrating Niche Models
Chapter 13: Processing Raw Outputs into Useful Maps
Chapter 14: Evaluating Niche Models
Chapter 15: Developing Risk Maps
Part V: Examples of Applications
Chapter 16: Identifying Risk Factors
Chapter 17: Spatial Interpolation and Prediction
Chapter 18: Identifying Species Involved in Transmission Cycles
Chapter 19: Responses to Environmental Change
Chapter 20: Conclusions
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