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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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Ethical ecosurveillance: mitigating the potential impacts on humans of widespread environmental monitoring.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Young, N. & Roche, D. G. & Lennox, R. J. & Bennett, J. R. & Cooke, S. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Ecosurveillance has proliferated in recent years, generating vast amounts of data on the natural environment. Ecosurveillance also has significant pot...

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Utilizing disease surveillance to examine gene flow and dispersal in white-tailed deer.

Published online: 01 Dec 2010

Authors: Kelly, A. C. & Mateus-Pinilla, N. E. & Douglas, M. & Douglas, M. & Brown, W. & Ruiz, M. O. & Killefer, J. & Shelton, P. & Beissel, T. & Novakofski, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The prevention and management of transmissible diseases hinges upon understanding host dispersal because it influences distribution of wildlife, affec...

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Monitoring a Norwegian freshwater crayfish tragedy: eDNA snapshots of invasion, infection and extinction.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Strand, D. A. & Johnsen, S. I. & Rusch, J. C. & Agersnap, S. & Larsen, W. B. & Knudsen, S. W. & Møller, P. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The European noble crayfish Astacus astacus is threatened by crayfish plague caused by the oomycete Aphanomyces astaci, which is spread by the invasiv...

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The economic benefit of time-varying surveillance effort for invasive species management.

Published online: 01 Jun 2016

Authors: Holden, M. H. & Nyrop, J. P. & Ellner, S. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Government agencies develop invasive species management programmes assuming early detection is key to successful management. Some theoretical studies ...

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FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity Consultation Report. Collated views and ideas from the 2014 consultation.

Published online: 07 Jul 2020

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Burkmar, R.

Content type: Reports

A wide-ranging consultation with the UK biological recording and biodiversity surveillance and monitoring community was conducted. This was accomplish...

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Eight years of entomological surveillance in Italy show no evidence of Culicoides imicola geographical range expansion.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Conte, A. & Gilbert, M. & Goffredo, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Assessing changes in species range is based on identifying new occurrences in areas where absence has been inferred due to lack of previous records. T...

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Landscape connectivity predicts chronic wasting disease risk in Canada.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Nobert, B. R. & Merrill, E. H. & Pybus, M. J. & Bollinger, T. K. & Hwang YeenTen

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predicting the spatial pattern of disease risk in wild animal populations is important for implementing effective control programmes. We developed a r...

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A multi-state occupancy modelling framework for robust estimation of disease prevalence in multi-tissue disease systems.

Published online: 29 Jan 2021

Authors: Chaudhary, V. & Wisely, S. M. & Hernández, F. A. & Hines, J. E. & Nichols, J. D. & Oli, M. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Given the public health, economic and conservation implications of zoonotic diseases, their effective surveillance is of paramount importance. The ...

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Using generalised dissimilarity modelling and targeted field surveys to gap-fill an ecosystem surveillance network.

Published online: 02 Aug 2021

Authors: Guerin, G. R. & Williams, K. J. & Leitch, E. & Lowe, A. J. & Sparrow, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effective ecosystem management requires spatially distributed measurements that are representative of ecological diversity. When considering which sit...

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