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WILDLIFE HEALTH AND THE NORTH AMERICAN MODEL OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION. J Zoo Wildl Med 2022; 53:493-503. [DOI: 10.1638/2021-0114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Carver S, Peters A, Richards SA. Model Integrated Disease Management to facilitate effective translatable solutions for wildlife disease issues. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Scott Carver
- Department of Biological Sciences University of Tasmania
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- School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Charles Sturt University
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A SCOPING REVIEW OF THE RANGIFER TARANDUS INFECTIOUS DISEASE LITERATURE: GAP BETWEEN INFORMATION AND APPLICATION. J Wildl Dis 2022; 58:473-486. [PMID: 35675481 DOI: 10.7589/jwd-d-21-00165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The role and impact of infectious diseases in wildlife population dynamics are increasingly recognized, yet disease information is variably incorporated into wildlife management frameworks. This discrepancy is particularly relevant for Rangifer tarandus (caribou or reindeer), a keystone circumarctic species experiencing widespread population declines. The primary objective of this review was to characterize the available peer-reviewed literature on infectious diseases of Rangifer by using a scoping review methodology. Three databases of peer-reviewed literature-Web of Science, BIOSIS previews, and Scopus-were searched and 695 articles met the criteria for initial review. After screening for relevance and language, 349 articles, published between 1967 and 2020, remained. More than half of the excluded articles (181/346; 52%) were left out because they were not published in English; the majority of these excluded articles (120) were in Russian. From the 349 included articles, 137 (39%) pertained to wild (as opposed to semidomesticated or captive) Rangifer populations. Articles on infectious disease in wild Rangifer were published in 40 different journals across various disciplines; the most common journals were disease and parasitology oriented, accounting for 55% of included articles. Most studies were descriptive (87%), followed by experimental (9%). Of the pathogen taxa investigated, helminths were the most common, comprising 35% of articles. Rangifer subspecies were not equally represented in the literature, with barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus; n=40) and woodland caribou (R. t. caribou; n=39) having the greatest abundance and diversity of infectious disease information available. Few studies explicitly examined individual or population-level impacts of disease, or related disease to vital population rates, and only 27 articles explicitly related results to management or conservation. Findings from this review highlight an unbalanced distribution of studies across Rangifer ecotypes, a preference for dissemination in disease-specialized publication venues, and an opportunity for investigating population-level impacts that may be more readily integrated into caribou conservation frameworks.
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Giacinti JA, Jane Parmley E, Reist M, Bayley D, Pearl DL, Jardine CM. Canadian wildlife health surveillance—patterns, challenges and opportunities identified by a scoping review. Facets (Ott) 2022. [DOI: 10.1139/facets-2021-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The protection and promotion of healthy wildlife populations is emerging as a shared goal among stakeholders in the face of unprecedented environmental threats. Accordingly, there are growing demands for the generation of actionable wildlife health information. Wildlife health surveillance is a connected system of knowledge that generates data on a range of factors that influence health. Canada recently approved the Pan-Canadian Approach to Wildlife Health that describes challenges facing wildlife health programs and provides a path forward for modernizing our approach. This scoping review was undertaken to describe the range of peer-reviewed Canadian wildlife health surveillance literature within the context of the challenges facing wildlife health programs and to provide a quantitative synthesis of evidence to establish baselines, identify gaps, and inform areas for growth. This review describes patterns related to species, location, authorship/funding, objectives, and methodology. Five areas are identified that have the potential to propel the field of wildlife health: representativeness, expanded/diversified collaboration, community engagement, harmonization, and a shift to a solutions-focused and One Health mindset. This scoping review provides a synopsis of 10 years of Canadian wildlife health surveillance, challenges us to envision the future of successful wildlife health surveillance, and provides a benchmark from which we can measure change.
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- Jolene A. Giacinti
- Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Veterinary Drugs Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON N1G 2W1 Canada
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- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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