Wildlife disease elimination and density dependence

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1741, 2012, Pages 3139-3145

  Potapov, Alex ^a   Merrill, Evelyn ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic wasting disease; Disease management; Disease modelling; Frequency dependent transmission

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; COMPENSATION; DEER; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; VACCINATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CERVIDAE;

EID: 84863880342     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0520     Document Type: Article

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