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Modelling the future of the Hawaiian honeycreeper : an ecological and epidemiological problem

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Rock, Kat S., Keeling, Matthew James and Wood, David A. (2012) Modelling the future of the Hawaiian honeycreeper : an ecological and epidemiological problem. Ecological Modelling, Volume 235-236 . pp. 26-35. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.004

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.004

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Abstract

The Hawaiian honeycreeper (Drepanididae) faces the threat of extinction; this is believed to be due primarily to predation from alien animals, endemic avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) and climate change. A deterministic SI modelling approach is developed, incorporating these three factors and a metapopulation approach in conjunction with a quasi-equilibrium assumption to simplify the vector populations. This enables the qualitative study of the behaviour of the system. Numerical results suggest that although (partial) resistance to avian malaria may be advantageous for individual birds, allowing them to survive infection, this allows them to become carriers of infection and hence greatly increases the spread of this disease. Predation obviously reduces the life-expectancy of honeycreepers, but in turn this reduces the spread of infection from resistant carriers; therefore the population-level impact of predation is reduced. Various control strategies proposed in the literature are also considered and it is shown that predation control could either help or hinter, depending upon resistance of the honeycreeper species. Captive propagation or habitat restoration may be the best feasible solution to the loss of both heterogeneity within the population and the loss of the species as a whole.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QL Zoology
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Hawaiian honeycreepers -- Mathematical models, Population biology -- Mathematical models, Avian malaria -- Mathematical models, Extinction (Biology)
Journal or Publication Title: Ecological Modelling
Publisher: Elsevier BV
ISSN: 0304-3800
Official Date: 24 June 2012
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24 June 2012Published
Volume: Volume 235-236
Page Range: pp. 26-35
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.004
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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