Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock

ME Craft - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data

JE Smith, N Pinter‐Wollman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

Wildlife diseases: from individuals to ecosystems

DM Tompkins, AM Dunn, MJ Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission

KL VanderWaal, VO Ezenwa - Functional Ecology, 2016 - JSTOR
1. Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental
concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. 2 …

Reality mining of animal social systems

J Krause, S Krause, R Arlinghaus, I Psorakis… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
The increasing miniaturisation of animal-tracking technology has made it possible to gather
exceptionally detailed machine-sensed data on the social dynamics of almost entire …

[图书][B] Domestic animal behaviour and welfare.

DM Broom, AF Fraser - 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This fifth edition book is a comprehensive guide to the behaviour and welfare of domestic
animals. It provides practical information for those involved with farming, pet animals and …

Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its …

RK Hamede, J Bashford, H McCallum… - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the contact network between individuals has a profound effect on the
transmission of infectious disease. Using a novel technology–proximity sensing radio collars …

Bovine tuberculosis in Britain and Ireland–A perfect storm? The confluence of potential ecological and epidemiological impediments to controlling a chronic infectious …

AR Allen, RA Skuce, AW Byrne - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Successful eradication schemes for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) have been implemented in a
number of European and other countries over the last 50 years. However, the islands of …

Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife

LA White, JD Forester, ME Craft - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A hallmark assumption of traditional approaches to disease modelling is that
individuals within a given population mix uniformly and at random. However, this …

Linking social and pathogen transmission networks using microbial genetics in giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

KL VanderWaal, ER Atwill, LA Isbell… - Journal of animal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Although network analysis has drawn considerable attention as a promising tool for disease
ecology, empirical research has been hindered by limitations in detecting the occurrence of …