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Winter feeding of elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its effects on disease dynamics

Overview of attention for article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, March 2018
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Title
Winter feeding of elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its effects on disease dynamics
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, March 2018
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2017.0093
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Gavin G. Cotterill, Paul C. Cross, Eric K. Cole, Rebecca K. Fuda, Jared D. Rogerson, Brandon M. Scurlock, Johan T. du Toit

Abstract

Providing food to wildlife during periods when natural food is limited results in aggregations that may facilitate disease transmission. This is exemplified in western Wyoming where institutional feeding over the past century has aimed to mitigate wildlife-livestock conflict and minimize winter mortality of elk (Cervus canadensis). Here we review research across 23 winter feedgrounds where the most studied disease is brucellosis, caused by the bacteriumBrucella abortusTraditional veterinary practices (vaccination, test-and-slaughter) have thus far been unable to control this disease in elk, which can spill over to cattle. Current disease-reduction efforts are being guided by ecological research on elk movement and density, reproduction, stress, co-infections and scavengers. Given the right tools, feedgrounds could provide opportunities for adaptive management of brucellosis through regular animal testing and population-level manipulations. Our analyses of several such manipulations highlight the value of a research-management partnership guided by hypothesis testing, despite the constraints of the sociopolitical environment. However, brucellosis is now spreading in unfed elk herds, while other diseases (e.g. chronic wasting disease) are of increasing concern at feedgrounds. Therefore experimental closures of feedgrounds, reduced feeding and lower elk populations merit consideration.This article is part of the theme issue 'Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host-parasite dynamics in wildlife'.

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Unknown 82 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 17%
Student > Master 12 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 30 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 26%
Environmental Science 6 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 37 45%
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