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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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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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The use of pasture by the European badger (Meles meles).

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Kruuk, H. & Parish, T. & Brown, C. A. J. & Carrera, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The earthworm Lumbricus terrestris was the predominant food of the European badger; in the badger's habitat, L. terrestris was most abundant under pas...

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Disease transmission between and within species, and the implications for disease control.

Published online: 24 Mar 2004

Authors: Caley, P. & Hone, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Disease transmission can occur between and within species for diseases with multiple hosts. If these diseases are undesirable, for economic or health ...

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Assessing the host disease status of wildlife and the implications for disease control: Mycobacterium bovis infection in feral ferrets.

Published online: 21 Sep 2005

Authors: Caley, P. & Hone, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimating the basic reproductive rate (R0) of disease and/or the related threshold population density (KT) for disease establishment is fundamental t...

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A model of bovine tuberculosis in the badger Meles meles: an evaluation of different vaccination strategies.

Published online: 14 Jul 2004

Authors: Wilkinson, D. & Smith, G. C. & Delahay, R. J. & Cheeseman, C. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent years bovine tuberculosis (TB) incidence in cattle has been increasing in south-west England. The European badger Meles meles is implicated ...

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Public health and economic benefits of Spotted hyenas Crocuta crocuta in a peri-urban system.

Published online: 11 Feb 2022

Authors: Sonawane, C. & Yirga, G. & Carter, N. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species that depend on anthropogenic waste for food can remove pathogens that pose health risks to humans and livestock, thereby saving lives and mone...

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Effects of culling on spatial associations of Mycobacterium bovis infections in badgers and cattle.

Published online: 21 Nov 2007

Authors: Jenkins, H. E. & Woodroffe, R. & Donnelly, C. A. & Cox, D. R. & Johnston, W. T. & Bourne, F. J. & Cheeseman, C. L. & Clifton-Hadley, R. S. & Gettinby, G. & Gilks, P. & Hewinson, R. G. & McInerney, J. P. & Morrison, W. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Bovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, has serious consequences for Britain's cattle industry. European badgers (Meles meles) can tr...

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Identifying social behaviours related to disease transmission in banded mongoose from accelerometer data.

Published online: 26 Sep 2023

Authors: Vuurst, P. van de & Alexander, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Current methods for identifying and predicting infectious disease dynamics in wildlife populations are limited. Pathogen transmission dynamics can be ...

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Estimating disease transmission in wildlife, with emphasis on leptospirosis and bovine tuberculosis in possums, and effects of fertility control.

Published online: 10 Jul 2002

Authors: Caley, P. & Ramsey, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

We present methods for estimating disease transmission coefficients in wildlife using Leptospira interrogans infection (a bacterial disease transmitte...

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