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 compared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader coverage, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...

The emergence of CWD in Europe in 2016 and the first natural infection in wild reindeer warranted disease management. This led to the testing of 2424 hunted or culled reindeer during 2016–2018, from the infected subpopulation ...

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 ...

Infection patterns linked to age and sex are crucial to predict the population dynamic effects of diseases in long-lived species. How such demographic patterns of infection arise is often multifactorial, although the cause ...