Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality Patterns in an Emerging Wildlife Epidemic: The Phocine Distemper in European Harbour Seals
Tero Härkönen, Karin Harding, Thomas Dau Rasmussen et al. · 2007
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Tero Harkonen, Karin Harding, Thomas Rasmussen and co-authors studied who died in a seal distemper outbreak, for PLOS ONE in 2007. Phocine distemper virus swept through European harbour seals as a new wildlife epidemic. Studies of disease in wild animals often treat every animal as the same, yet age and sex can change the outcome a great deal.
The team broke mortality down by age and sex across the outbreak. Those patterns shape what an epidemic does to a population over years, not just in one season. Their work is a warning against simple averages in wildlife health. It also gives seal managers a clearer sense of which groups need watching.
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| CREATOR | Tero Härkönen, Karin Harding, Thomas Dau Rasmussen et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000887