Spatiotemporal Variation & Drivers of Parasitism

Factors from the environment, host, and within-host levels can influence parasitism in wild populations. Despite substantial spatial and temporal variation in these ecological factors, disease ecology studies are often limited practically in spatiotemporal sampling replicates. We used data from six years of wild wood mouse trapping to ask “how variable are the key factors driving parasitism?” - turns out, highly variable!

Read the paper here, Functional Ecology