Artificial Attractants: Implications for Disease Management in Deer.

• Tác giả: Kelsey Gritter, Mark A Lewis, Evelyn Merrill, Margo Pybus
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.4846 Specific aspects of culture
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Ecology and evolution , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 239708

Tóm tắt

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that infects cervid species by direct and environmental transmission and is invariably fatal. CWD spread can be promoted by the attraction of animals to "hotspots" such as hay bales and grain bags stored in fields and at farm sites. The density and location of hotspots may impact contact rates. We used an individual-based movement model of mule deer (