A mechanistic, stigmergy model of territory formation in solitary animals: Territorial behavior can dampen disease prevalence but increase persistence

• Lauren A. White ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lwhite@sesync.org

  Affiliation National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3852-5374

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• Sue VandeWoude,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Meggan E. Craft

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5333-8513

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