Landscape disruption effects in a meta-epidemic model with steady state demographics and migrations saturation

TL;DR

This paper explores how disruptions in migration pathways affect the dynamics of an epidemic in a two-patch ecosystem with steady demographics and migration saturation, revealing impacts on disease spread and population distribution.

Contribution

It introduces a model analyzing the effects of asymmetric migration disruptions on epidemic dynamics in a two-patch ecosystem with steady demographics.

Findings

Migration disruptions alter disease spread patterns

Asymmetric migration impacts population distribution

Steady state demographics are affected by migration saturation

Abstract

We continue the investigations of an ecosystem where a epidemic-affected population can move between two connected patches, by considering what happens to the system when the migration paths are interrupted in one direction, or when the infected are not able to exert the effort for migrating into the other patch.