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List of works by Ottar N. Bjornstad

A competing-risks model explains hierarchical spatial coupling of measles epidemics en route to national elimination

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

A geographic gradient in small rodent density fluctuations: a statistical modelling approach

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A gravity model for the spread of a pollinator-borne plant pathogen

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

A resource-depletion model of forest insect outbreaks

scientific article published in February 2006

A stochastic model for extinction and recurrence of epidemics: estimation and inference for measles outbreaks

scientific article published in December 2002

Accounting for spatial pattern when modeling organism-environment interactions

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Air travel and the spread of influenza: important caveats

scientific article published in November 2006

Allee effects and pulsed invasion by the gypsy moth

scientific article published on November 2006

An investigation of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Analysis of multi-level spatial data reveals strong synchrony in seasonal influenza epidemics across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

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Anthropogenically driven environmental changes shift the ecological dynamics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

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Are bark beetle outbreaks less synchronous than forest Lepidoptera outbreaks?

scientific article published on 27 October 2005

Bootstrap estimated uncertainty of the dominant Lyapunov exponent for Holarctic microtine rodents

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Climate-driven variation in mosquito density predicts the spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue

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Coexistence patterns of two invasive thistle species, Carduus nutans and C. acanthoides, at three spatial scales

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Comparison of alternative models of human movement and the spread of disease

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Concurrent assessment of epidemiological and operational uncertainties for optimal outbreak control: Ebola as a case study

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Correction: Air Travel and the Spread of Influenza: Important Caveats.

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Correction: Immune Boosting Explains Regime-Shifts in Prevaccine-Era Pertussis Dynamics.

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Cross-immunity between strains explains the dynamical pattern of paramyxoviruses

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Cycles and synchrony: two historical 'experiments' and one experience

scientific article published in September 2000

Demographic buffering: titrating the effects of birth rate and imperfect immunity on epidemic dynamics

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Detecting spatial interactions in the ragweed (Ambrosia artemissifolia L.) and the ragweed beetle (Ophraella communa LeSage) populations

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Developmental synchrony in multivoltine insects: generation separation versus smearing

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Differences in the population structure of Neisseria meningitidis in two Australian states: Victoria and Western Australia

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Dispersal, Environmental Correlation, and Spatial Synchrony in Population Dynamics

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Dissecting geographic variation in population synchrony using the common vole in central Europe as a test bed.

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Early evaluation of the Wuhan City travel restrictions in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak

scientific article published on 2 February 2020

Essential information: Uncertainty and optimal control of Ebola outbreaks

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2017)

Estimation and inference of R0 of an infectious pathogen by a removal method

scientific article published on 7 October 2005

Evaluating the relative importance of patch quality and connectivity in a damselfly metapopulation from a one-season survey

scholarly article by Takehiko Yamanaka et al published January 2009 in Oikos

Evolution and emergence of Bordetella in humans

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Evolution of acute infections and the invasion-persistence trade-off

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Evolution of acuteness in pathogen metapopulations: conflicts between "classical" and invasion-persistence trade-offs

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Generation separation in simple structured life cycles: models and 48 years of field data on a tea tortrix moth.

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Geographic transmission hubs of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States

scholarly article published by Lone Simonsen in 2018

Geographic variation in North American gypsy moth cycles: subharmonics, generalist predators, and spatial coupling.

scientific article published on January 2010

Geographical variation in the spatial synchrony of a forest-defoliating insect: isolation of environmental and spatial drivers

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

Human mobility and the spatial transmission of influenza in the United States

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Identifying the age cohort responsible for transmission in a natural outbreak of Bordetella bronchiseptica

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Immune boosting explains regime-shifts in prevaccine-era pertussis dynamics

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Imperfect vaccine-induced immunity and whooping cough transmission to infants

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Invasion speed is affected by geographical variation in the strength of Allee effects

scientific article published on January 2007

Landscape mosaic induces traveling waves of insect outbreaks

scientific article published on 20 January 2006

Measles metapopulation dynamics: a gravity model for epidemiological coupling and dynamics

scientific article published on 08 July 2004

Measles on the edge: coastal heterogeneities and infection dynamics

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Metapopulation Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

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Multivariate statistical analyses demonstrate unique host immune responses to single and dual lentiviral infection

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Natural immune boosting in pertussis dynamics and the potential for long-term vaccine failure.

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Network frailty and the geometry of herd immunity

scientific article published in November 2006

Nonlinearity and chaos in ecological dynamics revisited

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Optimizing reactive responses to outbreaks of immunizing infections: balancing case management and vaccination

scientific article

Pathogens, social networks, and the paradox of transmission scaling

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Persistence in epidemic metapopulations: quantifying the rescue effects for measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough

scientific article

Persistent Chaos of Measles Epidemics in the Prevaccination United States Caused by a Small Change in Seasonal Transmission Patterns.

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Pertussis toxin inhibits neutrophil recruitment to delay antibody-mediated clearance of Bordetella pertussis

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Peste des petits ruminants Virus Transmission Scaling and Husbandry Practices That Contribute to Increased Transmission Risk: An Investigation among Sheep, Goats, and Cattle in Northern Tanzania

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Population dynamics of the Indian meal moth: demographic stochasticity and delayed regulatory mechanisms

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Predicting optimal transmission investment in malaria parasites

scientific article published on 07 June 2016

Quantifying Transmission Investment in Malaria Parasites

scientific article published in February 2016

Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data

scientific article

Quantifying spatio-temporal variation of invasion spread

scientific article published in 2019

Recurrent insect outbreaks caused by temperature-driven changes in system stability.

scientific article

Roles of dispersal, stochasticity, and nonlinear dynamics in the spatial structuring of seasonal natural enemy–victim populations

scientific article published in 2005

Rural-urban gradient in seasonal forcing of measles transmission in Niger

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Seasonality and comparative dynamics of six childhood infections in pre-vaccination Copenhagen.

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Seasonality, cohort-dependence and the development of immunity in a natural host-nematode system.

scientific article published in March 2008

Serotype-Specific Transmission and Waning Immunity of Endemic Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Cameroon

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Sexually transmitted diseases: epidemic cycling and immunity

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Short-lived immunity against pertussis, age-specific routes of transmission, and the utility of a teenage booster vaccine

scientific article published on November 26, 2011

Sin Nombre hantavirus decreases survival of male deer mice

scientific article published on January 5, 2012

Slow spread of the aggressive invader, Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass)

Snow Tussocks, Chaos, and the Evolution of Mast Seeding

scientific article published in 2002

Snow tussocks, chaos, and the evolution of mast seeding

scientific article published on July 2002

Spatial Synchrony in Population Dynamics

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Spatial Transmission of 2009 Pandemic Influenza in the US

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Spatial dynamics and cross-correlation in a transient predator-prey system

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Spatial dynamics of specialist seed predators on synchronized and intermittent seed production of host plants

scientific article published on 19 April 2004

Spatio-temporal distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and p. Vivax malaria in Thailand

scientific article published in March 2005

Species interactions may help explain the erratic periodicity of whooping cough dynamics

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Stage-structured transmission of phocine distemper virus in the Dutch 2002 outbreak

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Strategic testing approaches for targeted disease monitoring can be used to inform pandemic decision-making

scientific article published in June 2021

Synchrony and second-order spatial correlation in host-parasitoid systems

article by Ottar N. Bjornstad & Jordi Bascompte i Sacrest published November 2001 in Journal of Animal Ecology

Synchrony in malaria infections: how intensifying within-host competition can be adaptive

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Synchrony, waves, and spatial hierarchies in the spread of influenza

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Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

The O antigen enables Bordetella parapertussis to avoid Bordetella pertussis-induced immunity

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The duration of travel impacts the spatial dynamics of infectious diseases

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on February 2008

The effect of seasonality, density and climate on the population dynamics of Montana deer mice, important reservoir hosts for Sin Nombre hantavirus

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The effect of temperature on Anopheles mosquito population dynamics and the potential for malaria transmission

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The evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of the paramyxoviridae

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The geography of spatial synchrony

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

The importance of temperature fluctuations in understanding mosquito population dynamics and malaria risk

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

The role of Allee effects in gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), invasions

article by Patrick C. Tobin et al published 9 April 2009 in Population Ecology

Timing and periodicity of influenza epidemics

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Transmission consequences of coinfection: cytokines writ large?

scientific article published on 26 April 2007

Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities

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Urbanization prolongs hantavirus epidemics in cities

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Voles and lemmings: chaos and uncertainty in fluctuating populations

scientific article published in 1995

Waves of larch budmoth outbreaks in the European alps

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Within-population spatial synchrony in mast seeding of North American oaks

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