Benjamin M. Bolker

TL;DR: The results suggest that vaccine programs should aim to prevent infection not only in old seniors, but also in young seniors and middle-aged individuals, to protect them from serious illness and to limit stress on the healthcare system.

TL;DR: The methodological framework developed in this study effectively incorporates state-specific movement patterns while making inferences regarding habitat selection in black bear movement patterns will contribute to an improved understanding of animal ecology as well as informed management decisions.

TL;DR: A model of habitat use rules is constructed to predict the distribution of a local population (prey sharing a common shelter and foraging across surrounding habitats) and describes realized habitat quality as a ratio of density- and location-dependent mortality to density-dependent growth.

TL;DR: This note uses a simple deterministic Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model to compare two common assumptions about disease incidence reports and shows that incorrect assumptions about the underlying observation processes can bias estimates of the basic reproduction number.

TL;DR: In this paper, Markov evolutions in the space of locally finite configurations have been used to develop a mathematically rigorous and practical framework that is widely applicable for theoretical ecology, and a new mathematical development has been discussed by discussing how spatial moment equations can be perturbatively expanded around the mean field model.