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Modelling sterilisation strategies to maximise population impact and cost-efficiency in free-roaming dog populations
Helen R. Fielding, Paul Richard Bessell, Andrew David Gibson…·Stella Mazeri
The paper develops a model to evaluate sterilisation strategies for free-roaming dog populations, finding that repeated short campaigns with high early intensity and female sterilisation coverage best balance cost-efficiency and population reduction.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.02.735983