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Potential effect of managing connectivity to contain disease spread among free-ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa) in disparate landscapes.

Published online: 26 Oct 2023

Authors: Vargas-Amado, M. E. & Vidondo, B. & Fischer, C. & Pisano, S. R. R. & Grütter, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Landscape connectivity is a major factor shaping the spread of pathogens in wildlife populations. By managing connectivity, transmission pathways can ...

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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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Modelling the koi herpesvirus (KHV) epidemic highlights the importance of active surveillance within a national control policy.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Taylor, N. G. H. & Norman, R. A. & Way, K. & Peeler, E. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Koi herpesvirus can cause serious disease in carp Cyprinus carpio populations globally. Populations of carp exposed to the virus are already widesprea...

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How can control of invading plant pathogens increase their rate of spread? How can we prevent it?

Published online: 05 Nov 2020

Authors: Sharp, R.

Content type: Blog

This paper presents the results of studies conducted to determine the effect of the control of invading plant pathogens in increasing their rate of sp...

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Paradoxes and synergies: optimizing management of a deadly virus in an endangered carnivore.

Published online: 02 Jul 2022

Authors: Gilbertson, M. L. J. & Onorato, D. & Cunningham, M. & Vandewoude, S. & Craft, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pathogen management strategies in wildlife are typically accompanied by an array of uncertainties such as the efficacy of vaccines or potential uninte...

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Epizootiology of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus (Baculoviridae) in European spruce sawfly (Gilpinia hercyniae): spread of disease from small epicentres in comparison with spread of baculovirus diseases in other hosts.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Entwistle, P. F. & Adams, P. H. W. & Evans, H. F. & Rivers, C. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The patterns of spatial growth of small epicentres of nuclear polyhedrosis virus disease of Gilpinia hercyniae (Htg.) (GHNPV) were studied in spruce f...

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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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Ten principles for generating accessible and useable COVID-19 environmental science and a fit-for-purpose evidence base.

Published online: 10 May 2021

Authors: Kadykalo, A. N. & Haddaway, N. R. & Rytwinski, T. & Cooke, S. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The 'anthropause', a period of unusually reduced human activity and mobility due to COVID-19 restrictions, has serendipitously opened up unique opport...

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Evil and allies: opportunistic gulls as both spreaders and sentinels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in human-transformed landscapes.

Published online: 10 Dec 2024

Authors: Martín-Vélez, V. & Montalvo, T. & Giralt, D. & Ramírez, F. & Giménez, J. & Morral-Puigmal, C. & Planell, R. & Sabate, S. & Bota, G. & Navarro, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human-transformed residuals, especially those derived from human waste (dumps), farmland, and livestock are involved in the emergence of antibiotic-re...

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