Infectious diseases and extinction risk in wild mammals

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1269-1279

  Pedersen, Amy B ^a,b   Jones, Kate E ^d   Nunn, Charles L ^c,e   Altizer, Sonia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domesticated animal; IUCN Red List; Mammal conservation; Parasite; Pathogen; Transmission mode; Virus

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MAMMAL; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; RED LIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MAMMALS;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 34648834679     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00776.x     Document Type: Article

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