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SUBMITTER: Judge J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428277 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Judge Johanna J Wilson Gavin J GJ Macarthur Roy R McDonald Robbie A RA Delahay Richard J RJ
Scientific reports 20170321 1
The European badger (Meles meles) is of considerable interest in the UK as it is both a protected species and the main wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis infection in cattle. While there have been three national badger surveys in the 1980s, 1990s and 2011-13, using the number of badger main setts as a proxy for the abundance of badger social groups, none has combined contemporary data on social group size at landscape and national scales. We estimated social group size by genotyping hair ...[more]