Evaluation of selective culling of infected individuals to control Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease;Evaluacíon de la extraccíon selectiva de individuos infectados para controlar la enfermedad de tumor facial en el demonio de Tasmania

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 841-851

  Lachish, Shelly ^a   McCallum, Hamish ^b,d   Mann, Dydee ^c   Pukk, Chrissy E ^c   Jones, Menna E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disease suppression; Infectious disease management; Selective culling; Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BREEDING SEASON; CULLING; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TUMOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FACE; INFECTION CONTROL; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; SKIN TUMOR; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FACE; INFECTION CONTROL; MARSUPIALIA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 77956600259     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01429.x     Document Type: Article

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