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Development of a model for Simulium damnosum s.l. recolonization dynamics at a breeding site in the onchocerciasis control programme area when control is interrupted.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Birley, M. H. & Walsh, J. F. & Davies, J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Problems associated with the population dynamics and control of Simulium damnosum Theo. s.l. are discussed in relation to the programme for the contro...

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FISH: CGIAR research program on fish agri-food systems Tilapia health research 2017-2022: priorities and partnerships.

Published online: 19 Sep 2018

Authors: Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan & Rohana Subasinghe

Content type: Miscellaneous

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Compensatory effects of recruitment and survival when amphibian populations are perturbed by disease.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Muths, E. & Scherer, R. D. & Pilliod, D. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The need to increase our understanding of factors that regulate animal population dynamics has been catalysed by recent, observed declines in wildlife...

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Effect of culling on individual badger Meles meles behaviour: potential implications for bovine tuberculosis transmission.

Published online: 23 Jul 2020

Authors: Ham, C. & Donnelly, C. A. & Astley, K. L. & Jackson, S. Y. B. & Woodroffe, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Culling wildlife as a form of disease management can have unexpected and sometimes counterproductive outcomes. In the UK, badgers Meles meles are cull...

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Estimating landscape spread of a low-prevalence disease using multiple surveillance methods.

Published online: 18 Jun 2024

Authors: Feuka, A. & Pandey, A. & Cosgrove, M. & Moriarty, M. & Duffiney, A. & Campa, H., III & Vercauteren, K. & Pepin, K. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Diseases occurring at low prevalence in free-ranging wildlife can be difficult to study and predict at a landscape scale. This problem is compounded b...

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Density matters: how population dynamics of house mice (Mus musculus) inform the epidemiology of Leptospira.

Published online: 14 Nov 2024

Authors: Moinet, M. & Abrahão, C. R. & Gasparotto, V. P. O. & Wilkinson, D. A. & Vallée, E. & Benschop, J. & Russell, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rodents are maintenance hosts of numerous pathogens, and both their density and the pathogen prevalence determine the risk they pose to other animals ...

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Risk management of outbreaks of livestock diseases.

Published online: 11 Nov 2015

Authors: Inamura, M. & Rushton, J. & Antón, J.

Content type: Bulletin

Livestock diseases can severely harm animal and human health, and have adverse economic impacts on producer incomes, markets, trade, and consumers. Th...

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Examining disease prevalence for species of conservation concern using non-invasive spatial capture-recapture techniques.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Muneza, A. B. & Linden, D. W. & Montgomery, R. A. & Dickman, A. J. & Roloff, G. J. & Macdonald, D. W. & Fennessy, J. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-invasive techniques have long been used to estimate wildlife population abundance and density. However, recent technological breakthroughs have fa...

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Interacting effects of surface water and temperature on wild and domestic large herbivore aggregations and contact rates.

Published online: 14 Nov 2024

Authors: Martinez, V. & Mantas, J. & Hulke, J. & Gituku, B. & Ndiema, N. & Elkouby, M. & Thompson, A. & Cantoadams, J. & Yeh, S. & Vanleeuwen, A. & Young, H. & Titcomb, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Earth's climate is rapidly changing, bringing forth questions of how domestic and wild animals will alter their behaviour in response to increasing te...

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Maasai pastoralists kill lions in retaliation for depredation of livestock by lions.

Published online: 26 Nov 2020

Authors: Ontiri, E. M. & Odino, M. & Kasanga, A. & Kahumbu, P. & Robinson, W. & Currie, T. & Hodgson, D. J.

Content type: Blog

A survey ws conducted on 213 Maasai communities from three geographic regions in Kenya to determine whether lion-killing is an indiscriminate act of r...

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