Harvest strategies for the elimination of low prevalence wildlife diseases

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Mysterud, Atle, Viljugrein, Hildegunn, Rolandsen, Christer M., Belsare, Aniruddha V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2021
• Subjects: Nordfjella; Norway; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210124; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.210124; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsos.210124

The intensive harvesting of hosts is often the only practicable strategy for controlling emerging wildlife diseases. Several harvesting approaches have been explored theoretically with the objective of lowering transmission rates, decreasing the transmission period or specifically targeting spatial...