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Unhealthy herds: indirect effects of predators enhance two drivers of disease spread

2011-10-01

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1. Predators could reduce disease prevalence in prey populations by culling infected hosts and reducing host density. However, recently observed positive correlations between predator density and disease burdens in prey/hosts suggest that predators do not always ‘keep the herds healthy’. Several possible mechanisms could explain this ‘unhealthy herds’ effect, including a predator‐induced change in prey/host traits...

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Literature Corpus work: c2617887-34ba-5d4d-b892-de6e991e8703
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01872.x

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