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Pathogen-mediated selection and management implications for white-tailed deer exposed to chronic wasting disease.

Published online: 28 Apr 2022

Authors: Ketz, A. C. & Robinson, S. J. & Johnson, C. J. & Samuel, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pathogens can cause host extinction, affect population dynamics and influence natural selection. Host susceptibility to pathogens can vary by species,...

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Modelling management strategies for chronic disease in wildlife: predictions for the control of respiratory disease in bighorn sheep.

Published online: 29 Apr 2022

Authors: Almberg, E. S. & Manlove, K. R. & Cassirer, E. F. & Ramsey, J. & Carson, K. & Gude, J. & Plowright, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Controlling persistent infectious disease in wildlife populations is an ongoing challenge for wildlife managers and conservationists worldwide, and ch...

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Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Bradshaw, C. J. A. & McMahon, C. R. & Miller, P. S. & Lacy, R. C. & Watts, M. J. & Verant, M. L. & Pollak, J. P. & Fordham, D. A. & Prowse, T. A. A. & Brook, B. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Increasing sophistication of population viability analysis has broadened our capacity to model population change while accounting for system complexit...

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Unravelling the dispersal dynamics and ecological drivers of the African swine fever outbreak in Belgium.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Dellicour, S. & Desmecht, D. & Paternostre, J. & Malengreaux, C. & Licoppe, A. & Gilbert, M. & Linden, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

African swine fever is a devastating disease of domestic pigs and wild boars caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV). ASFV originates from sub-Saha...

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Environmental conditions associated with bat white-nose syndrome mortality in the north-eastern United States.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Flory, A. R. & Kumar, S. & Stohlgren, T. J. & Cryan, P. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating North American bats that is caused by the cold-growing fungus Geomyces destructans. Si...

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Impacts of tsetse control and land-use on vegetative structure and tree species composition in south-western Ethiopia.

Published online: 08 Aug 1997

Authors: Reid, R. S. & Wilson, C. J. & Kruska, R. L. & Mulatu, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

More effective control of the tsetse fly in Africa will reduce constraints imposed by the livestock disease, trypanosomiasis. Trypanosomiasis lowers l...

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Observations on a naturally occurring winter epizootic of myxomatosis at Canberra, Australia, in the presence of rabbit fleas (Spilopsyllus cuniculi Dale) and virulent myxoma virus.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Williams, R. T. & Fullagar, P. J. & Kogon, C. & Davey, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A rabbit from a colony of 143 adult rabbits kept in a rabbit-proof 32-hectare paddock was inoculated with the virulent Lausanne strain of myxoma virus...

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Epizootiology of the seal disease in the eastern North Sea.

Published online: 06 Mar 1993

Authors: Heide-Jørgensen, M. P. & Härkönen, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The intensity of the 1988 outbreak of phocine distemper among harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, present in the vicinity of haul-out sites in the Kattegat...

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Vector control technology and its relationship to the environment and wildlife.

Published online: 22 May 1967

Authors: Mulla, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This paper is one of a number on the effects on wildlife of contamination of the environment by pesticides that were presented at a conference in Engl...

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Evaluating the effects of a biopesticide on populations of the variegated grasshopper, Zonocerus variegatus.

Published online: 25 Apr 1997

Authors: Thomas, M. B. & Langewald, J. & Wood, S. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A field trial was conducted in 1994 near Ketou, Ouemé, Benin, to investigate the efficacy of an oil formulation of the fungal entomopathogen, Metarhiz...

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