Precipitation, Predators May be Key in Ecological Regulation of Infectious Disease

In a study appearing in the May issue of the journal American Naturalist, researchers show that just three ecological factors - rainfall, predator diversity, and island size and shape - can account for nearly all of the differences in infection rates among the eight Channel Islands off the California coast.

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