Climate changes may lead to tipping points where the epidemiologicalcharacteristics of infectious wildlife diseases suddenly change, leading tooutbreaks. However, empirically documented cases of the extent to whichemerging ...

1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases poses considerable logistical challenges com-pared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader cover-age, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...

Competing objectives are common in the management of wildlife diseases. However, the extent to which disease mitigation conflicts with other goals has rarely been quantified. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a lethal cervid ...

Background Although wild ungulate populations are heavily monitored throughout Europe, we understand little of how parasites afect population dynamics, and there is no systematic, long-term monitoring of parasite diversity ...

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 ...

The successful mitigation of emerging wildlife diseases may involve controversial host culling. For livestock, ‘preemptive host culling’ is an accepted practice involving the removal of herds with known contact to infected ...