Relationship Between a Disease, Host Density and Mortality in a Free-Living Deer Population
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 51 (1) , 235-240
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4322
Abstract
Disease is often viewed as a density-dependent factor expected to limit population numbers, but field evidence from mammals is generally lacking. Mandibular swellings in reindeer on South Georgia (Falkand Islands, UK) provide an example of a disease whose frequency of occurrence is correlated with host density. The disease acts as a contributory cause of mortality by reducing the body condition of reindeer.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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