Decoupling environmental effects and host population dynamics for anthrax, a classic reservoir-driven disease

• Juan Pablo Gomez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Pablo Gomez, Dawn M. Nekorchuk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Dawn M. Nekorchuk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Pablo Gomez, Dawn M. Nekorchuk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8200-2146

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• Liang Mao,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Sadie J. Ryan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation Lab, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• José Miguel Ponciano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jason K. Blackburn

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jkblackburn@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0928-4831

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