Paul Cross

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United State Geological Survey
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University of California Berkeley
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PhD

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Applying the resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework to wildlife health management

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BioScience

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Expanding National‐Scale Wildlife Disease Surveillance Systems With Research Networks

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Ecology and Evolution

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The effectiveness of harvest for limiting wildlife disease: Insights from 20 years of chronic wasting disease in Wyoming

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Ecological Applications

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Decision framing overview and performance of management alternatives for bison and elk feedground management at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming

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Decision framing overview and performance of management alternatives for bison and elk feedground management at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming

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Evaluating elk distribution and conflict under proposed management alternatives at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming

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Evaluating elk distribution and conflict under proposed management alternatives at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming

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Unintended indirect effects limit elk productivity from supplemental feeding in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Ecosphere

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Potential effects of chronic wasting disease and supplemental feeding on elk populations in Wyoming

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Predictions of elk and chronic wasting disease dynamics at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, and surrounding areas

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Predictions of elk and chronic wasting disease dynamics at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, and surrounding areas

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Predictions of elk, chronic wasting disease dynamics, and socioeconomics under alternative D at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, and surrounding areas

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Ungulate personality and the human shield contribute to long-distance migration loss

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Chronic wasting disease alters the movement behavior and habitat use of mule deer during clinical stages of infection

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Ecology and Evolution

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U.S. Geological Survey science strategy to address chronic wasting disease and cervid health in 2024–2028

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Deer management generally reduces densities of nymphal Ixodes scapularis, but not prevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto

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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

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Evaluating management alternatives for Wyoming elk feedgrounds in consideration of chronic wasting disease

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Evaluating noninvasive methods for estimating cestode prevalence in a wild carnivore population

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PLOS ONE

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Disease outbreaks select for mate choice and coat color in wolves

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Science

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Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace‐of‐life

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Ecology Letters

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Examination of the interaction between age‐specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Eyes on the herd: Quantifying ungulate density from satellite, unmanned aerial systems, and GPScollar data

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Ecological Applications

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Population structure, intergroup interaction, and human contact govern infectious disease impacts in mountain gorilla populations

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American Journal of Primatology

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Sarcoptic mange: An emerging panzootic in wildlife

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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

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Epidemiological differences between sexes affect management efficacy in simulated chronic wasting disease systems

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Sustaining Transmission in Different Host Species: The Emblematic Case of<i>Sarcoptes scabiei</i>

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BioScience

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Disease and secondary sexual traits: effects of pneumonia on horn size of bighorn sheep

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The Journal of Wildlife Management

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Human activities and weather drive contact rates of wintering elk

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Natural history of a bighorn sheep pneumonia epizootic: Source of infection, course of disease, and pathogen clearance

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Ecology and Evolution

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Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis

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Ecology Letters

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Scavengers reduce potential brucellosis transmission risk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Ecosphere

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Elk migration influences the risk of disease spillover in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Effects of supplemental feeding on the fecal bacterial communities of Rocky Mountain elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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PLOS ONE

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A metapopulation model of social group dynamics and disease applied to Yellowstone wolves

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Genomic association with pathogen carriage in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)

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Ecology and Evolution

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Patterns and processes of pathogen exposure in gray wolves across North America

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Scientific Reports

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Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Revisiting Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area

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National Academies Press

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Parsing the effects of demography, climate and management on recurrent brucellosis outbreaks in elk

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Ecological forecasting—21st century science for 21st century management

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Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Epidemic growth rates and host movement patterns shape management performance for pathogen spillover at the wildlife–livestock interface

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Risk factors and productivity losses associated with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infection in United States domestic sheep operations

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Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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Modeling elk‐to‐livestock transmission risk to predict hotspots of brucellosis spillover

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The Journal of Wildlife Management

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Epidemic Growth Rates and Host Movement Patterns Shape Management Performance for Pathogen Spillover at The Wildlife-livestock Interface

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Chronic wasting disease—Research by the U.S. Geological Survey and partners

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Extreme Value-Based Methods for Modeling Elk Yearly Movements

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Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics

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Genetic structure of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae informs pathogen spillover dynamics between domestic and wild Caprinae in the western United States

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Scientific Reports

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Confronting models with data: the challenges of estimating disease spillover

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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The ecology of movement and behaviour: a saturated tripartite network for describing animal contacts

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Hidden cost of disease in a free‐ranging ungulate: brucellosis reduces mid‐winter pregnancy in elk

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Ecology and Evolution

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Challenges and Opportunities Developing Mathematical Models of Shared Pathogens of Domestic and Wild Animals

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Veterinary Sciences

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Estimating distemper virus dynamics among wolves and grizzly bears using serology and Bayesian state‐space models

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Ecology and Evolution

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Examining speed versus selection in connectivity models using elk migration as an example

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Landscape Ecology

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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

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Land Use Diversification and Intensification on Elk Winter Range in Greater Yellowstone: Framework and Agenda for Social-Ecological Research

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Rangeland Ecology &amp; Management

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Linking spring phenology with mechanistic models of host movement to predict disease transmission risk

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Contact and contagion: Probability of transmission given contact varies with demographic state in bighorn sheep

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Unraveling the disease consequences and mechanisms of modular structure in animal social networks

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Assessment of a strain 19 brucellosis vaccination program in elk

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Wildlife Society Bulletin

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Inferring infection hazard in wildlife populations by linking data across individual and population scales

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Ecology Letters

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Rangeland Systems

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Springer International Publishing

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Metapopulation disease spread simulation code

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Zenodo

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Linking plant phenology and elk migratory behavior to predict brucellosis risk in the Yellowstone ecosystem

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Integrative and Comparative Biology

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When environmentally persistent pathogens transform good habitat into ecological traps

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Royal Society Open Science

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&quot;One Health&quot; or Three? Publication Silos Among the One Health Disciplines

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Plos Biology

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Energetic costs of mange in wolves estimated from infrared thermography

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Ecology

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Genomics reveals historic and contemporary transmission dynamics of a bacterial disease among wildlife and livestock

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Nature Communications

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Fine-scale movements of rural free-ranging dogs in conservation areas in the temperate rainforest of the coastal range of southern Chile

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Mammalian Biology

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Context-dependent survival, fecundity and predicted population-level consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Data from: Context-dependent survival, fecundity, and predicted population-level consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo

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Dryad

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Data from: Estimating the phenology of elk brucellosis transmission with hierarchical models of cause-specific and baseline hazards

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Dryad

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Data from: Managing more than the mean: using quantile regression to identify factors related to large elk groups

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Dryad

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Elk group sizes and covariates

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Dryad

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Estimating the phenology of elk brucellosis transmission with hierarchical models of cause-specific and baseline hazards

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Journal of Wildlife Management

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Host fitness and infection data

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Dryad

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Influences of supplemental feeding on winter elk calf:cow ratios in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Journal of Wildlife Management

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Managing more than the mean: using quantile regression to identify factors related to large elk groups

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore

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Ecology Letters

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Timing of elk births and abortions

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Dryad

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Dryad

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Buffalo Mortality Table

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Dryad

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A multi-scale assessment of animal aggregation patterns to understand increasing pathogen seroprevalence

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Ecosphere

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Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection

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Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution

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Buffalo Capture Sessions

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Dryad

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Buffalo Captures

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Dryad

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Buffalo Disease Tests

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Dryad

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Buffalo Named

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Dryad

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Buffalo Sightings

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Dryad

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Costs and benefits of group living with disease: a case study of pneumonia in bighorn lambs (Ovis canadensis)

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

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Data from: Disease, predation and demography: assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels

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Dryad

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Herd Sightings

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Dryad

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Herd Sightings Freq

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Dryad

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Limitations to estimating bacterial cross-species transmission using genetic and genomic markers: inferences from simulation modeling

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Evolutionary Applications

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Sex-Biased Gene Flow Among Elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

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The Population History of Endogenous Retroviruses in Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)

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Journal of Heredity

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Use of Exposure History to Identify Patterns of Immunity to Pneumonia in Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)

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Plos One

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An ecological perspective on Brucella abortus in the western United States

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Revue Scientifique Et Technique-Office International Des Epizooties

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Female elk contacts are neither frequency nor density dependent

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Ecology

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Female elk contacts are neither frequency nor density dependent

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Ecology

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Inferential consequences of modeling rather than measuring snow accumulation in studies of animal ecology

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Ecological Applications

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Microsatellites indicate minimal barriers to mule deer Odocoileus hemionus dispersal across Montana , USA

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Wildlife Biology

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of pneumonia in bighorn sheep

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Taming wildlife disease: bridging the gap between science and management

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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U.S. Geological Survey environmental health science strategy — Providing environmental health science for a changing world

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Underestimating the effects of spatial heterogeneity due to individual movement and spatial scale: infectious disease as an example

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Landscape Ecology

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Use of exposure history to identify patters of immunity to pneumonia in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)

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PLoS ONE

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USGS Environmental health science strategy: providing environmental health science for a changing world: Public review release

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Anthropogenic change and conservation medicine

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Effects of low-density feeding on elk-fetus contact rates on Wyoming feedgrounds

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Journal of Wildlife Management

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Effects of supplemental feeding and aggregation on fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in elk

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Journal of Wildlife Management

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Parasite invasion following host reintroduction: a case study of Yellowstone's wolves

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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The utility of normalized difference vegetation index for predicting African buffalo forage quality

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The Journal of Wildlife Management

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USGS Environmental Health Science Strategy — Providing Environmental Health Science for a Changing World — Public Review Release

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Wildlife contact analysis: emerging methods, questions, and challenges

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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiolgy

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Decreasing prevalence of brucellosis in red deer through efforts to control disease in livestock

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Epidemiology and infection

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Modeling routes of chronic wasting disease transmission: Environmental prion persistence promotes deer population decline and extinction

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PLoS ONE

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Rift Valley Fever Virus infection in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) herds in rural South Africa: Evidence of interepidemic transmission

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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Simulating sterilization , vaccination , and test-and-remove as brucellosis control measures in bison

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Ecological Applications

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Mapping brucellosis increases relative to elk density using hierarchical Bayesian models

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PLoS ONE

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Brucellosis in Cattle, Bison, and Elk: Management Conflicts in a Society with Diverse Values

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Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America’s First National Park

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From moonlight to movement and synchronized randomness: Fourier and wavelet analyses of animal location time series data

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Ecology

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Isolation of Bartonella capreoli from elk

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Veterinary Microbiology

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Linking process to pattern: estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of a wildlife epidemic from cross-sectional data

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Ecological Monographs

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Lymph Node meta-transcriptomics: exploring the host microbiome

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PLoS ONE

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Persistence of canine distemper virus in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's carnivore community

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Ecological Applications

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Probable causes of increasing elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Ecological Applications

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Rejoiner: sifting through model space

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Ecology

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Clinical demodicosis in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kruger National Park

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Journal of Wildlife Diseases

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Disease, predation and demography: assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Effects of chemical immobilization on survival of African buffalo in the Kruger National Park

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Journal of Wildlife Management

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Effects of management, behavior, and scavenging on risk of brucellosis transmission in elk of western Wyoming

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Journal of Wildlife Diseases

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Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application ot African buffalo in South Africa

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Ecology

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Wildlife population structure and parasite transmission: Implications for disease management

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Management of Disease in Wild Mammals

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Habitat quality and heterogeneity influence distribution and behavior in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

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Ecology

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Infectious Disease in Cervids of North America: Data, Models, and Management Challenges

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Trade-offs between predation and foraging explain sexual segregation in African buffalo

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Journal of Animal Ecology

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Effects of management and climate on elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Ecological Applications

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Effects of supplemental feeding on gastrointestinal parasite infection in elk (Cervus elaphus): Preliminary observations

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Veterinary Parasitology

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LoCoH: nonparameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions

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PLoS ONE

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Utility of R0 as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations

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Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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Wildlife health initiatives in Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone Science

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Assessing vaccination as a control strategy in an ongoing epidemic: Bovine tuberculosis in African Buffalo

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Ecological Modelling

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Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations

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Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts and Data analyses

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Wildlife tuberculosis in South African conservation areas: Implications and challenges

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Veterinary Microbiology

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Duelling timescales of host mixing and disease recovery determine disease invasion in structured populations

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Ecology Letters

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Disentangling association patterns in fission-fusion societies using African buffalo as an example

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Animal Behavior

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Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease?

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Forage selection by African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) through the dry season in two landscapes of the Kruger National Park

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South African Journal of Wildlife Research

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Integrating association data and disease dynamics in a social ungulate: bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo in the Kruger National Park

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Annales Zoologici Fennici

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Ecological implications of bovine tuberculosis in African Buffalo herds

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Ecological Applications

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