Demographic buffering and compensatory recruitment promotes the persistence of disease in a wildlife population

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 443-449

  Mcdonald, Jenni L ^a   Bailey, Trevor ^a   Delahay, Richard J ^b   Mcdonald, Robbie A ^a   Smith, Graham C ^b   Hodgson, Dave J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meles meles; Badger; Bayesian; Bovine tuberculosis; Demographic buffering; Demography; Density dependence; Integrated Population Model; Life history; Wildlife reservoir

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE; MELES MELES; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84959905133     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12578     Document Type: Letter

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