Targeting hunter distribution based on host resource selection and kill sites to manage disease risk.

摘要: Endemic and emerging diseases are rarely uniform in their spatial distribution or prevalence among cohorts of wildlife. Spatial models that quantify risk-driven differences resource selection hunter mortality animals at fine scales can assist disease management by identifying high-risk areas individuals. We used functions (RSFs) ratios (SRs) to sex- age-specific patterns collared (n = 67) hunter-killed 796) nonmigratory elk (Cervus canadensis manitobensis) during the hunting season between 2002 2012, southwestern Manitoba, Canada. Distance protected area was most important covariate influencing hunter-kill sites (AICw 1.00). Collared adult males (which likely be infected with bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) chronic wasting disease) selected for outside parks contrast females juvenile males. The RSFs showed negatively associated landscape-level forest cover, high road density, water whereas these were positively cover increasing distance streams density. Local-level animal locations sites; however, stronger females. In instances where infects a metapopulation eradication is infeasible, principle goal limit spread animals. map regularly potentially infectious hosts but currently underrepresented kill sites. present novel application widely available data target based on host as promising tool applying selective transmissible game species.