Animal populations
Predicting farm level animal populations using environmental and socioeconomic variables
... an animal production system where animals live mainly outdoors and eat a predominantly pasture based diet, remotely sensed geospatial layers provide sufficient information to extrapolate counts of LSUs at the farm ...
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Identifying social learning in animal populations : A new ‘option bias’ method
... Methodology/Principal Findings: We present a solution to this problem, in the form of a new means of identifying social learning in animal populations. The method is based on the well-established premise of ...
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Prevalence of antibodies to Legionella pneumophila in animal populations
... We examined more than 2,800 human and animal sera for antibodies to four serogroups of Legionella pneumophila by using the microagglutination test.. Antibody titers of .1:64 were conside[r] ...
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Mathematical modelling of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in human and animal populations
... shool reprodution number R s as the mean number of ases generated by a typial infetious individual within shool s at the beginning of an epidemi. Reall that β s represent the within shoo[r] ...
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Spatial Modeling of Detection and Abundance from Count Surveys of Animal Populations
... We give an overview of the hierarchical modeling framework for multiple pass repeated count and removal survey data from a sample of habitat units. Although the framework is the same for both types of sampling, we focus ...
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Analytic and Simulation Modeling of Plant-Animal Populations in Russian Tundra
... tundra populations and communities we have implemented the idea of simulation technology’s efficiency to justify simplified equations admitting the parametric ...
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Modelling zoonotic diseases with treatment in both human and animal populations
... (iii) The infected animals I(T) is remove with a death rate c or by human predation before they can possibly reproduce. However, both the infected I(T) and susceptible S(T) ani- mals populations contribute to the ...
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The statistical analysis of animal populations. PhD thesis, University of Kent
... 174 59 Predicted numbers of blackbirds recovered by age and year of ringing 175 60 Actual and expected recoveries for each year 177 61 Actual and expected recoveries for each age grou[r] ...
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Roads in Rainforest: best practice guidelines for planning, design and management
... clearing. Animal populations may respond to edge effects through avoidance or by reduced survival or reproduction at the edge (creating a ‘negative’ effect on the ...
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A review on the development of individual-based model in ecology
... in animal-aspect ...about animal populations, because in order to assess the impact of humans having on the mortality of young fish, abundance in fish population number and distribution, you need to ...
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Impacts of Seed and Pollen Flow on Population Genetic Structure for Plant Genomes With Three Contrasting Modes of Inheritance
... for animal populations are extended to hermaphrodite plant populations to study the behavior of biparentally inherited nuclear genes and organelle genes with paternal and maternal ...between ...
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An extensible framework and database of infectious disease for biosurveillance
... information [3] 1 . Because the scope of biosurveillance is broad, the BRD includes resources for infectious dis- eases affecting human, plant, and animal populations, as well as sentinel surveillance ...
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Early animal farming and zoonotic disease dynamics: modelling brucellosis transmission in Neolithic goat populations
... of animal domestication in the Near East ...to animal domestication, the development of animal farming is likely to have further enhanced the risk of human infection by increasing (i) the prevalence ...
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The genomes and history of domestic animals
... livestock animal populations, and an associative analysis is conducted, which reveals the relationship (or lack thereof) between the animal's phenotype and specific nucleotide ...
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“Mind the Gap”: One dilemma concerning the expansion of legal subjectivity in the age of globalisation’
... Law, Crime and History 2011 1 disaster.7 Arguably, we can and should now place the growing vulnerability of human and animal populations, and of the living systems that support them, in [r] ...
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Going wild: what a global small animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists
... of animal-borne tags and the detection of these weak signals against background noise (Cochran and Wikelski, ...of animal tracking for the past 45·years (Lord et ...
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A Mathematical model of cutaneous leishmaniasis
... Sandflies are the disease carriers. Sandflies are called susceptible if they can become infected as a result of biting an infected human or animal. Their transition from susceptible to infected depends on the rate ...
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Contact Challenge of Cattle with Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Validates the Role of the Nasopharyngeal Epithelium as the Site of Primary and Persistent Infection
... virus populations sampled from sites of primary infection were markedly more di- verse than viruses from vesicular lesions of cattle, suggesting the occurrence of sub- stantial bottlenecks associated with vesicle ...
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The Effects of Phylogeny and Ecology on the Microbiota in Captive Primate and Carnivore Species.
... While Hofmann’s observations only directly apply to certain ungulates, his concepts of evolutionary adaptation are pertinent across mammalian taxa. For example, most primates are omnivorous, consuming a combination of ...
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Zoo Attractions and Trinidadian Student Attitudes toward Animal Welfare
... This study also found that respondents were opposed to the archaic display of animals in cages and doubted that the Emperor Valley Zoo could sufficiently replace the natural environment of the giraffes by providing a ...
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