Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: Using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1147-1157

  Hamede, Rodrigo K ^a   Bashford, Jim ^a   McCallum, Hamish ^a   Jones, Menna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact rates; Mating behaviour; Seasonality; Social networks; Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CARNIVORE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARSUPIAL; MATING BEHAVIOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TUMOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; NEOPLASMS; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 70350043871     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01370.x     Document Type: Article

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