Chapter 23 Coming Soon! Home Range Contamination Model

Last updated 4 October 2024

23.1 What is the Home Range Contamination Model?

The Home Range Contamination Model leverages a Bayesian Hierarchical Model to determine which home ranges are likely to harbor CWD positive hosts.

23.2 What Questions Does it Answer?

Question 1. Where should I cull hosts to have the highest chance of removing CWD positive animals? The predicts risk by age/sex segment, allowing for data-driven, targeted culling operations.

23.3 Output Details

A map that shows risk by home range and age/sex segment.

23.4 Abbreviated Tutorial

  1. Run the Surveillance and Prevention Allocation Model from the CWD Data Warehouse.
  2. Click through the outputs to compare and contrast the efficacy of various familiar management strategies in attenuating disease outbreak.

23.5 Parameters Needed to Execute the Model

  • Model type: Select ‘Home Range Contamination Model’ from the drop-down list.

  • Reference name: Label the run.

  • (Optional) Applicable season-year: Label the season-year of the run to assist in documentation.

  • (Optional) Notes: Enter any remarks about the run.

  • Season-year: Select the season-year to be used in the simulation.

23.6 Details on the Theory

Walter W, Hanley B, Them C, Mitchell C, Kelly J, Grove D, Hollingshead N, Abbott R, Schuler K. 2024. Predicting the odds of chronic wasting disease with the Habitat Risk software. Spatio and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2024.100650