Although many protected areas are foci for scientific research, they also face growing threats
from illegal encroachment and overharvesting. Does the presence of field researchers help …

Background The parasite composition of wild host individuals often impacts their behavior
and physiology, and the transmission dynamics of pathogenic species thereby determines …

Research in ecology and wildlife biology remains crucial for increasing our knowledge and
improving species management and conservation in the midst of the current biodiversity …

Resource/consumer dynamics are potentially mediated by both limiting resources and biotic
interactions. We examined temporal correlations between precipitation, plant cover, and …

Statistical models for estimating absolute densities of field populations of animals have been
widely used over the last century in both scientific studies and wildlife management …

A series of intensive, longitudinal, mark-recapture studies of hantavirus infection dynamics in
reservoir populations in the southwestern United States indicates consistent patterns as well …

Sin Nombre virus (SNV), hosted by the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), is the
primary etiologic agent of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in North America. To …

Traveling waves are analyzed in a model of the hantavirus infection in deer mice. The
existence of two kinds of wave phenomena is predicted. An environmental parameter …

Hantaviruses are rodent-borne zoonotic agents that cause hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome in Asia and Europe and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in North and …

A mark-recapture longitudinal study of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody to Sin Nombre virus
(SNV) in rodent populations in western Colorado (1994-results summarized to October …