Posts Tagged: model
North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: Empowerment and Exclusivity Hinder Advances in Wildlife Conservation
July 3, 2019
We argue that the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) as currently promoted is an overly narrow construct, used both to explain how North American wildlife conservation developed historically, and as a prescriptive framework for applying a hunting-focused form … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged american, conservation, empowerment, exclusivity, model, north, wildlife
A Model Analysis of Effects of Wolf Predation on Prevalence of Chronic Wasting Disease in Elk Populations of Rocky Mountain National Park
June 30, 2019
Increasing mortality rates in diseased populations can retard disease transmission and reduce disease prevalence (Barlow 1996, Lafferty and Holt 2003, Packer et al. 2003, Ostfeld and Holt 2004). Increasing mortality slows transmission via two mechanisms. First, it reduces the average … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged analysis, chronic, effects, model, predation, prevalence, wasting
