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Pathogen population dynamics

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The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

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Population dynamics is the study of how the size and structure of populations respond to the forces that act on them. The chapter begins with attempts to clarify concepts of time-scale, of population structure, of how populations can be measured and of regulation of a population. The chapter continues by considering how pathogen populations change in fixed host populations over short time-scales, then how populations change when the host population changes on a time-scale comparable with the pathogen and, finally, how populations change over many generations of both host and pathogen. The argument uses both reasoning about drastically simplified settings and generalizations from experimental data.

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Shaw, M.W. (1998). Pathogen population dynamics. In: Jones, D.G. (eds) The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3302-1_8

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