Zoonosis |
An animal pathogen that can also infect humans |
Spillover |
Animal-to-human transmission |
Spillback |
Human-to-animal transmission |
Propagule pressure |
The number, and temporal and spatial distribution of wildlife exposures to a translocated zoonosis |
Permeability |
The likelihood that humans and potential wildlife hosts, along with the translocated zoonosis, enter the boundary region at the human–wildlife interface |
Realized niche |
The set of hosts, vectors, and ecophysiological requirements that characterize existing transmission cycles of a translocated zoonosis |