Wildlife-livestock conflict: The risk of pathogen transmission from bison to cattle outside Yellowstone National Park

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 476-485

  Kilpatrick, A Marm ^a,b   Gillin, Colin M ^c   Daszak, Peter ^a  

^a The Consortium for Conservation Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal disease; Buffalo; Climate change; Disease control; Emerging infectious disease; GIS; Population regulation; Wildlife disease; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIVESTOCK; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ANAS; ANIMALIA; AVES; BISON; BISON BISON; BOS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 61449104919     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01602.x     Document Type: Article

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