Management of bovine tuberculosis in brushtail possums in New Zealand: predictions from a spatially explicit, individual-based model
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Bovine tuberculosis in brushtail possums: models, dogma and data
Three different models of bovine tuberculosis (Tb) in brushtail possums were evaluated against their stated purpose, and testable assumptions and predictions evaluated against available data where possible. Not surprisingly, two of the models may be falsified based on currently available data with respect to either important model assumptions or predictions, and the third may suffer from being ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Ecology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-8901,1365-2664
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01839.x