Wildlife contact analysis: Emerging methods, questions, and challenges

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1437-1447

  Cross, Paul C ^a   Creech, Tyler G ^b,c   Ebinger, Michael R ^b   Heisey, Dennis M ^d   Irvine, Kathryn M ^a   Creel, Scott ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact; Disease transmission; Hierarchical model; Proximity logger; Social network; Super spreading

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; DATA SET; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84866455429     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1376-6     Document Type: Article

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