Human land use influences chronic wasting disease prevalence in mule deer

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-126

  Farnsworth, Matthew L ^a   Wolfe, Lisa L ^b   Hobbs, N Thompson ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^a   Williams, Elizabeth S ^c   Theobald, David M ^a   Conner, Mary M ^b,d   Miller, Michael W ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic wasting disease; CWD; Epidemiology; Land use; Landscape alteration; Model selection; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Prion; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; LAND USE CHANGE; UNGULATE; URBANIZATION;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 13944276468     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0194     Document Type: Article

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