Host–pathogen models are essential for designing strategies for managing disease threats
to humans, wild animals and domestic animals. The behaviour of these models is greatly …

▪ Abstract Baculoviruses occur widely among Lepidoptera, and in some species of forest and
agricultural insects, they cause epizootics in outbreak populations. Here we review recent …

Most mathematical models of disease assume that transmission is linearly dependent on the
densities of host and pathogen. Recent data for animal diseases, however, have cast doubt …

Focuses on the adaptive prophylactic response to larval density seen in moth caterpillars
and their baculoviruses. Use of larval density as a cue to the future deterioration of their …

Species interactions may profoundly influence disease outbreaks. However, disease
ecology has only begun to integrate interactions between hosts and their food resources …

Motivated by questions such as “Why do some diseases take off, while others die out?” and
“How can we optimize the deployment of control methods,” we introduce simple …

1. Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians, caused by the fungal
pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which has been implicated recently in population …

Models of outbreaks in forest-defoliating insects are typically built from a priori
considerations and tested only with long time series of abundances. We instead present a …

Pathogens are ubiquitous in insect populations and yet few studies examine their dynamics
and impacts on host populations. We discuss four lepidopteran systems and explore their …

Pathogens play a key role in insect population dynamics, contributing to short‐term
fluctuations in abundance as well as long‐term demographic trends. Two key factors that …