Modelling wildlife rabies: Transmission, economics, and conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-179

  Sterner, Ray T ^a   Smith, Graham C ^b  

^a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefit cost analysis; Conservation; Disease; Economics; Models; Rabies; Vaccination; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; MAMMAL; RABIES;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745033559     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.004     Document Type: Review

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