Wildlife managers consider animal translocation a means of increasing the viability of a local
population. However, augmentation may disrupt existing resident disease dynamics and …

Translocations of species are expected to be used increasingly to counter the undesirable
effects of anthropogenic changes to ecosystems, including loss of species. Methods to …

In the context of wildlife translocations, it is important to recognize that there is a growing
body of evidence that parasites are an essential component of a healthy ecosystem (Hudson …

Translocation is used by managers to mitigate the negative impacts of development on
species. Moving individuals to a new location is challenging, and many translocation …

Background The spread of infectious diseases in wildlife populations is influenced by
patterns of between-host contacts. Habitat “hotspots”-places attracting a large numbers of …

Most directly transmitted infections require some form of close contact between infectious
and susceptible hosts to spread. Often disease models assume contacts are equal and use …

Motivated by an array of infectious diseases that threaten wildlife populations, a simple
metapopulation model (subpopulations connected by animal movement) is developed …

Many wildlife species occupy landscapes that vary in the distribution, abundance, and
quality of food resources. Increasingly, urbanized and agricultural habitats provide …

It is intuitive that the health status of wildlife might influence conservation translocation
outcomes, however, health as a topic has received limited attention in the conservation …

Animal movement impacts the spread of human and wildlife diseases, and there is
significant interest in understanding the role of migrations, biological invasions and other …