Population-level influence of a recurring disease on a long-lived wildlife host

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 377-388

  Perez Heydrich, Carolina ^a,b   Oli, Madan K ^c   Brown, Mary B ^a  

^a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EXTINCTION; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY; TURTLE; WILD POPULATION;

GOPHERUS; GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 84857655928     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19735.x     Document Type: Article

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