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Density-dependent decline of host abundance resulting from a new infectious disease

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Hochachka, Wesley M., Dhondt, André A.·2000·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.080551197
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Although many new diseases have emerged within the past 2 decades [Cohen, M. L. (1998)Brit. Med. Bull.54, 523–532], attributing low numbers of animal hosts to the existence of even a new pathogen is problematic. This is because very rarely does one have data on host abundance before and after the epizootic as well as detailed descriptions of pathogen prevalence [Dobson, A. P. & Hudson, P. J. (1985) in Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations, eds. Grenfell, B. T. & Dobson, A. P. (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K.), pp. 52–89]. Month by month we tracked the spread of the epizootic of an apparently novel strain of a widespread poultry pathogen,Mycoplasma gallisepticum, through a previously unknown host, the house finch, whose abundance has been monitored over past decades. Here we are able to demonstrate a causal relationship between high disease prevalence and declining house finch abundance throughout the eastern half of North America because the epizootic reached different parts of the house finch range at different times. Three years after the epizootic arrived, house finch abundance stabilized at similar levels, although house finch abundance had been high and stable in some areas but low and rapidly increasing in others. This result, not previously documented in wild populations, is as expected from theory if transmission of the disease was density dependent.

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Authors
Hochachka, W. M., & Dhondt, A. A.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2000-05-02
Volume
97
Issue
10
Pages
5303-5306
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.080551197
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384
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journal article
Language
en
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Hochachka, W. M., & Dhondt, A. A. (2000). Density-dependent decline of host abundance resulting from a new infectious disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.080551197

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