Integrating epidemiology into population viability analysis: Managing the risk posed by rabies and canine distemper to the Ethiopian wolf

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1372-1385

  Haydon, D T ^a,c   Laurenson, M K ^a   Sillero Zubiri, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CONSERVATION; DISEASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RABIES; VIABILITY;

CANIDAE; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS SIMENSIS; POTATO VIRUS A; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 0036794192     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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