An agent-based framework for improving wildlife disease surveillance: A case study of chronic wasting disease in Missouri white-tailed deer
A. V. Belsare, M. E. Gompper, B. Keller, J. Sumners, L. Hansen, J. Millspaugh
The paper develops an agent-based framework to improve wildlife disease surveillance by simulating disease prevalence and sampling in Missouri white-tailed deer, showing overestimation of CWD detection confidence under unrealistic assumptions.
bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2019Ecology