作者
Louise K Barnett, Thomas AA Prowse, David E Peacock, Gregory J Mutze, Ron G Sinclair, John Kovaliski, Brian D Cooke, Corey JA Bradshaw
发表日期
2018/11
期刊
Journal of Applied Ecology
卷号
55
期号
6
页码范围
2954-2962
简介
- Exploiting synergies among diseases or parasites could increase the efficacy of biological control of invasive species. In Australia, two viruses were introduced to control European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus: myxoma virus in 1950 and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus in 1995. While these biological controls caused initial declines of >95% in affected populations, and despite recurring outbreaks of both diseases, rabbits remain a problem in many areas.
- We used 18 years of capture–mark–recapture, dead recovery, and antibody assay data from a sentinel population in South Australia to test whether these two diseases interact to modify the survival of individual wild rabbits. We compared four joint, multistate, dead‐recovery models to test the hypotheses that rabbit haemorrhagic disease and myxoma viruses have synergistic (i.e., previous exposure to one virus affects survival during outbreaks of the other …
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