A case study of bats and white-nose syndrome demonstrating how to model population viability with evolutionary effects

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1176-1185

  Maslo, Brooke ^a,b   Fefferman, Nina H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary demography; Novel pathogen; Population genetics; Pseudogymnoascus destructans; Rapid evolution

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EMERGENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS;

ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES;

EID: 84937032631     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12485     Document Type: Article

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