Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2314
Abstract: An opportunistic bacterial infection preceded by weather of unusually high humidity and temperature caused mass death of saigas. In 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelopes died in 3 weeks in central Kazakhstan. The proximate cause… read more here.
Keywords: mortality events; brink multidisciplinary; mortality; mass mortality ... See more keywords