@article{d075b0e72b6b4da4a541efe7f81f6804,
title = "Pathogens can slow down or reverse invasion fronts of their hosts",
abstract = "Infectious diseases are often regarded as possible explanations for the sudden collapse of biological invasions. This phenomenon is characterized by a host species, which firstly can successfully establish in a non-native habitat, but then spontaneously disappears again. This study proposes a reaction-diffusion model consisting of a simple SI disease with vital dynamics of Allee effect type. By way of travelling wave analysis, conditions are derived under which the invasion of the host population is slowed down, stopped or reversed as a consequence of a subsequently introduced disease. Hence, pathogens can dramatically control the rate of spread of invasive species.",
keywords = "Allee effect, Epidemiology, Invasion, Pathogen, Reversal, SI model, Slow-down, Travelling wave",
author = "Hilker, {Frank M.} and Lewis, {Mark A.} and Hiromi Seno and Michel Langlais and Horst Malchow",
note = "Funding Information: F.M.H. and H.M. gratefully acknowledge support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Predoc and Research Fellowships PE04533 and S04716, respectively), which has made possible their stays in Japan during which parts of the presented results have been obtained. F.M.H. is thankful for discussion with the groups of H. Seno, N. Shigesada, Y. Iwasa, N. Yamamura and Y. Hosono as well as with S.V. Petrovskii. M.A.L. gratefully acknowledges support from a Canada Research Chair, NSERC Collaborative Research Opportunity and Discovery grants and the National Science Foundation Grant No. DEB-0213698. The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.",
year = "2005",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1007/s10530-005-5215-9",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "817--832",
journal = "Biological Invasions",
issn = "1387-3547",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "5",
}
