The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Due to the complexity of multifactorial diseases, single-target drugs do not always exhibit
satisfactory efficacy. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that simultaneous modulation …

Accurate estimation of the parameters characterising infectious disease transmission is vital
for optimising control interventions during epidemics. A valuable metric for assessing the …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

Inferring biotic interactions from functional, phylogenetic and geographical proxies remains
one great challenge in ecology. We propose a conceptual framework to infer the backbone …

The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex properties
such as large-scale fluctuations and heterogeneities in many networks, leading to the …

Written by a prominent statistician and author, the first edition of this bestseller broke new
ground in the then emerging subject of spatial statistics with its coverage of spatial point …

The dynamic spatial redistribution of individuals is a key driving force of various
spatiotemporal phenomena on geographical scales. It can synchronize populations of …

Abstract Development of strategies for mitigating the severity of a new influenza pandemic is
now a top global public health priority. Influenza prevention and containment strategies can …

Mathematical models of transmission have become invaluable management tools in
planning for the control of emerging infectious diseases. A key variable in such models is the …