A behaviorally-explicit approach for delivering vaccine baits to mesopredators to control epizootics in fragmented landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Beasley, James C ^a   Atwood, Todd C ^b,c   Byrne, Michael E ^a   Vercauteren, Kurt C ^b   Johnson, Shylo R ^b   Rhodes, Olin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE; RHODAMINE B;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BAIT UPTAKE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INFECTION CONTROL; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MARK RECAPTURE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RABIES; RACCOON; VACCINATION; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; INDIANA; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

ANIMALS; INDIANA; OPOSSUMS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RACCOONS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84921033423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113206     Document Type: Article

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