Host culling as an adaptive management tool for chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer: A modelling study

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 457-466

  Wasserberg, Gideon ^a   Osnas, Erik E ^a   Rolley, Robert E ^c   Samuel, Michael D ^b  

^a Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Back calculation analysis; Culling; Density dependent transmission; Disease control; Frequency dependent transmission; Multi state matrix; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; Transmission mode; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULLING; DEER; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HARVESTING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; RISK PERCEPTION; SEASONALITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 61449141157     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01576.x     Document Type: Article

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