Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events
In 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelopes died in 3 weeks in central Kazakhstan. The proximate cause of death is confirmed as hemorrhagic septicemia caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida type B, based on multiple strands of evidence. Statistical modeling suggests that there was unusually hi...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2018
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