Testing hypotheses of bison population decline (1970-1999) in Wood Buffalo National Park: Synergism between exotic disease and predation

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1165-1176

  Joly, Damien O ^a,b   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC POPULATION SIMULATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BRUCELLOSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; SYNERGISM; TUBERCULOSIS; UNGULATE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK; WORLD;

ANTHRAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BISON; BISON BISON; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BUBALUS; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 9944248696     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-072     Document Type: Article

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