Chronic wasting disease in Utah

Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease, Special Report 2007

Contributing authors:

• Mary M. Conner — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
• John E. Gross — National Park Service
• Paul C. Cross — United States Geological Survey
• Michael R. Ebinger — Utah State University
• Robert R. Gillies — Utah State University
• Michael D. Samuel — United States Geological Survey
• Michael W. Miller — Colorado Division of Wildlife

Technical associates:

• Karen G. Wolfe — Utah State University
• Samson Y. Gebreab — Utah State University

Funding organizations:

• Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
• United States Geological Survey
• Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

This e-book is the product of a second workshop that was funded and promoted by the United States Geological Survey to enhance cooperation between states for the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD). The first workshop addressed issues surrounding the statistical design and collection of surveillance data for CWD. The second workshop, from which this document arose, followed logically from the first workshop and focused on appropriate methods for analysis, interpretation, and use of CWD surveillance and related epidemiology data. Consequently, the emphasis of this e-book is on modeling approaches to describe and gain insight of the spatial epidemiology of CWD.

The following documents are in PDF format.— (PDF format)

Entire document

• Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease  (15.5 MB)

Individual sections

• Cover through table of contents  (2.5 MB)
• Introduction  (1.9 MB)
• Chapter 1 — Approaches to Regional-Scale Modeling  (4.6 MB)
• Chapter 2 — Approaches to Landscape-Scale Modeling  (5.4 MB)
• Chapter 3 — Approaches to Fine-Scale Modeling  (2.5 MB)