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The Role of Sexual Dimorphism in the Economics of Wildlife Disease Managemet

Submitted by Henrietta Dale on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 13:56
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Infected wildlife cannot be selectively harvested for most diseases, complicating disease control. Targeting harvests by sex improves efficiency because disease transmission and prevalence usually vary by sex. We present a bioeconomic model of optimal deer and disease management that incorporates a two-sex wildlife model and sex-specific disease transmission and prevalence.

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