AMoveE 2014: Diann Prosser
Channel: Movebank
Date: 23/05/2014

This talk was presented by Diann Prosser on 5 May 2014 as part of the Symposium on Animal Movement and the Environment, held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

Prosser DJ, Takekawa JY, Xiao X, Newman SH, 2014, "Examining movement ecology of wild birds and their role in disease transmission"

Abstract: Over the past decade, the role of wild birds in the transmission of diseases that affect poultry and humans has been highly debated. Little information has been available on their movement ecology in Asia where diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have emerged. In response to the threat of HPAI, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, U.S. Geological Survey, and University of Oklahoma developed a research partnership to mark wild birds, assess their movements and association with poultry, and apply models to evaluate their potential for disease spread. The partnership deployed more than 550 satellite transmitters on 26 waterfowl species across 12 countries from Africa to Asia. Focal areas included two areas of China—Qinghai Lake in the Central Asian Flyway, site of the first large scale outbreak of H5N1 in wild birds, and Poyang Lake, an integrated landscape of people, rice agriculture, and wild birds in the East Asian Flyway. Here, we summarize our efforts to integrate wild bird movement data in Brownian Bridge Movement Models, 3-D Utilization Distributions, and other approaches with ecological risk factors to model their potential role in disease transmission.