📈 The Ecology of Infection: Predator–Prey–Pathogen Dynamics 🦅
🧠 Conceptual Overview In eco-epidemiology, the Predator–Prey–Pathogen model represents an integrated framework linking population ecology with infectious disease dynamics. Unlike classical epidemiological models that treat host populations in isolation, this framework embeds disease transmission within a trophic system. A central ecological mechanism captured by the model is selective predation, whereby predators disproportionately remove infected prey, … Read more