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Disease ecology represents an intersection of population ecology, community ecology, epidemiology and environmental health focused on the study of (typically infectious) disease within a population of individual hosts, sometimes multiple hosts of different species. Analysis often focuses on the interactions of at-risk individuals with each other, with other species, and with elements of their shared environments. Accordingly, spatial factors often play key roles in disease ecology due to the influence of heterogeneous geographic distributions (e.g., host distributions, vector abundance, and landscape barriers to contact) on the spread of an infectious disease.
The phrase “exploratory spatial analysis” encompasses a wide range of goals and techniques for investigating patterns and process within georeferenced data. The phrase intersects other phrases in the literature and merits brief discussion....
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Waller, L.A. (2017). Exploratory Spatial Analysis in Disease Ecology. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_396
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