| Titre : | Biological Conservation 131(2) - AUG 2006 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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C. E. Hawkins, Auteur ;
C. Baars, Auteur ;
H. Hesterman, Auteur ;
G. J. Hocking, Auteur ;
M. E. Jones, Auteur ;
B. Lazenby, Auteur ;
D. Mann, Auteur ;
N. Mooney, Auteur ;
D. Pemberton, Auteur ;
S. Pyecroft, Auteur ;
M. Restani, Auteur ;
J. Wiersma, Auteur
We present evidence that Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) is an emerging disease that is now widespread and constitutes a serious threat to the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii. This species, the world's largest extant marsupial carnivore,[...]
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N. L. Forrester, Auteur ;
R. C. Trout, Auteur ;
S. L. Turner, Auteur ;
D. Kelly, Auteur ;
B. Boag, Auteur ;
S. Moss, Auteur ;
E. A. Gould, Auteur
During the past 50 years two readily distinguishable rabbit-specific diseases caused by Myxoma virus (MYXV) and Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) respectively, have decimated wild rabbit populations worldwide. Combined with the use of the[...]
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J. Gurnell, Auteur ;
S. P. Rushton, Auteur ;
P. W. W. Lurz, Auteur ;
A. W. Sainsbury, Auteur ;
P. Nettleton, Auteur ;
M. D. F. Shirley, Auteur ;
C. Bruemmer, Auteur ;
N. Geddes, Auteur
Squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) is a well-documented example of pathogen-mediated competition between an invasive species, the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), and a native species, the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). SQPV causes disease[...]
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Stephen J. O'Brien, Auteur ;
Jennifer L. Troyer, Auteur ;
Melody Roelke, Auteur ;
Laurie Marker, Auteur ;
Jill Pecon-Slattery, Auteur
Research studies of infectious disease outbreaks in wild species of the cat family Felidae have revealed unusual details regarding forces that shape population survival and genetic resistance in these species. A highly virulent feline coronaviru[...]
Article
David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Philip Riordan, Auteur ;
Fiona Mathews, Auteur
Since the 1970s the control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle, predominantly in the SW of England has proved continually recalcitrant; it is currently increasing at an annual rate of 18%. This deterioration has occurred despite a succession[...]
Article
E. R. Morgan, Auteur ;
M. Lundervold, Auteur ;
G. F. Medley, Auteur ;
B. S. Shaikenov, Auteur ;
P. R. Torgerson, Auteur ;
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur
Disease transmission between wildlife and livestock can undermine conservation efforts, either by challenging the viability of threatened populations, or by eroding public tolerance of actual or potential wildlife disease reservoirs. This paper [...]
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Deana L. Clifford, Auteur ;
Jonna A. K. Mazet, Auteur ;
Edward J. Dubovi, Auteur ;
David K. Garcelon, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Coonan, Auteur ;
Patricia A. Conrad, Auteur ;
Linda Munson, Auteur
Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) populations on four California Channel islands have declined severely since 1994. Canine distemper (CDV) was suspected to be responsible for the decline of the Santa Catalina Island fox, so knowledge of infectious[...]
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Ailsa J. Hall, Auteur ;
Paul D. Jepson, Auteur ;
Simon J. Goodman, Auteur ;
Tero Harkonen, Auteur
TWO outbreaks of phocine distemper have severely affected harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) populations in European and UK waters. The first occurred in 1988 when the causative virus was identified as a new member of the genus morbillivirus. The sec[...]
Article
Andrew C. Breed, Auteur ;
Hume E. Field, Auteur ;
Jonathan H. Epstein, Auteur ;
Peter Daszak, Auteur
Wildlife populations are affected by a series of emerging diseases, some of which pose a significant threat to their conservation. They can also be reservoirs of pathogens that threaten domestic animal and human health. In this paper, we review [...]
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F. Vial, Auteur ;
S. Cleaveland, Auteur ;
G. Rasmussen, Auteur ;
D. T. Haydon, Auteur
The standard objective of a vaccination strategy is to reduce the reproductive ratio, R(0), defined as the number of secondary host infections arising directly from introduction of a single infected individual into an otherwise fully susceptible[...]
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S. L. Harris, Auteur ;
S. M. Brookes, Auteur ;
G. Jones, Auteur ;
A. M. Hutson, Auteur ;
P. A. Racey, Auteur ;
J. Aegerter, Auteur ;
G. C. Smith, Auteur ;
L. M. McElhinney, Auteur ;
A. R. Fooks, Auteur
Worldwide, there are more than 1100 species of the Order Chiroptera, 45 of which are present in Europe, and 16 in the UK. Bats are reservoirs of, or can be infected by, several viral diseases, including rabies virus strains (in the Lyssavirus ge[...]
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D. A. Randall, Auteur ;
J. Marino, Auteur ;
D. T. Haydon, Auteur ;
C. Sillero-zubiri, Auteur ;
D. L. Knobel, Auteur ;
L. A. Tallents, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
M. K. Laurenson, Auteur
Infectious diseases pose an important extinction risk for a number of endangered carnivore populations. Wild canids are particularly susceptible to generalist pathogens transmitted from domestic dogs - particularly rabies virus and canine distem[...]
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F. Mathews, Auteur ;
D. Moro, Auteur ;
R. Strachan, Auteur ;
M. Gelling, Auteur ;
N. Buller, Auteur
Reintroductions and translocations are increasingly used as conservation tools. However, despite guidelines recommending that health-screening be an integral part of such programmes, few reports are available. For most species, even baseline dat[...]
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Ray T. Sterner, Auteur ;
Graham C. Smith, Auteur
Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease of mammals; it exacerbates the uncertainty of conserving populations of some threatened mammals (TM). Modelling affords an inexpensive, a priori way of studying key parameters of wildlife rabies transmission, r[...]
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David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
M. Karen Laurenson, Auteur
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Fabian H. Leendertz, Auteur ;
Georg Pauli, Auteur ;
Kerstin Maetz-Rensing, Auteur ;
Wayne Boardman, Auteur ;
Charles Nunn, Auteur ;
Heinz Ellerbrok, Auteur ;
Siv Aina Jensen, Auteur ;
Sandra Junglen, Auteur ;
Christophe Boesch, Auteur
Until recently, the focus of great ape behavioural and ecological research has been distinct from the focus of scientists working in medical and veterinary sciences. More scientists are calling for a connection between medical and field research[...]
