Epidemiology: Past, Present, and Future Impacts on Understanding Disease Dynamics and Improving Plant Disease Management-A Summary of Focus Issue Articles.

摘要: Epidemiology has made significant contributions to plant pathology by elucidating the general principles underlying development of disease epidemics. This resulted in a greatly improved theoretical and empirical understanding dynamics epidemics time space, predictions outbreaks or need for control real-time basis, tactical strategic solutions problems. Availability high-resolution experimental data at multiple temporal spatial scales now provided platform test validate theories on spread diseases wide range ranging from local landscape level. Relatively new approaches epidemiology, network information theory, coupled with availability large-scale datasets rapid computer technology, are leading revolutionary thinking about that can result considerable improvement dec...