Turner Lab Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Unit Staff and Students (underlined)

Brandell, E.E., D.J. Storm, T.R. Van Deelen, D.P. Walsh, W.C. Turner. 2022. A call to action: standardizing white-tailed deer harvest data in the Midwestern United States and implications for quantitative analysis and disease management Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:943411. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.943411

Dougherty, E.R., D.P. Seidel, J.K. Blackburn, W.C. Turner, W.M Getz. 2022. A framework for integrating inferred movement behavior into disease risk models, Movement Ecology, 10:31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00331-8

Gilbertson, M.L.J., A. Ketz, M. Hunsaker, D. Jarosinski, W. Ellarson, D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner. 2022. Agricultural land use shapes dispersal in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Movement Ecology. In press.

Gilbertson, M.L.J., E.E. Brandell, M. Pinkerton, N. Meaux, M. Hunsaker, D. Jarosinski, W. Ellarson, D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner. 2022. Cause of death, pathology, and chronic wasting disease status of white-tailed deer mortalities in Wisconsin, Journal of Wildlife Diseases. In press.

Huang, Y.-H., K.L. Kausrud, A. Hassim, S.O. Ochai, O.L. van Schalkwyk, E.H. Dekker, A. Buyantuyev, C.C. Cloete, J.W. Kilian, P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden, and W.C. Turner.  2022. Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multi-host savanna ecosystems. Ecological Monographs, e1526. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1526

Ochai, S.O., J. Crafford, A. Hassim, C. Byaruhanga, Y.-H. Huang, A. Hartmann, E.H. Dekker, O.L. van Schalkwyk, P.L. Kamath, W.C. Turner, and H. van Heerden. 2022. Immunological evidence of variation in exposure and immune response to Bacillus anthracis in herbivores of Kruger and Etosha National Parks. Frontiers in Immunology, 13:814031. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.814031

Turner, W.C., S. Périquet, C.E. Goelst, K. Vera, E.Z. Cameron, K.A. Alexander, J.L. Belant, C.C. Cloete, P. du Preez, W.M. Getz, R.S. Hetem, P.L. Kamath, M. Kasaona, M. Mackenzie, J. Mendelsohn, J.K.E. Mfune, J.R. Muntifering, R. Portas, H.A. Scott, W. M. Strauss, W. Versfeld, B. Wachter, G. Wittemyer, and J.W. Kilian. 2022. Africa’s drylands in a changing world: Challenges for wildlife conservation under climate and land-use changes in the Greater Etosha Landscape, Global Ecology and Conservation, 38:e02221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02221


Posters and Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

Unit Staff and Students underlined

Brandell, E.E., D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner. White-tailed deer management structures and the effects of management on harvest. Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society Winter Meeting March, 2022 (Contributed Oral)

Gilbertson, M.L.J., E.E. Brandell, M.E. Pinkerton, N.M. Meaux, M. Hunsaker, D. Jarosinski, W. Ellarson, D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner. Cause of death, pathology, and chronic wasting disease status of white-tailed deer mortalities in Wisconsin. 70th Annual International Conference, Wildlife Disease Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 23-29 July 2022. (Contributed Oral)

Gilbertson, M.L.J., E.E. Brandell, M.E. Pinkerton, N.M. Meaux, M. Hunsaker, D. Jarosinski, W. Ellarson, D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner. Cause of death, pathology, and chronic wasting disease status of white-tailed deer mortalities in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society Winter Meeting March, 2022 (Contributed Oral)

Inzalaco, H.N., S.S. Lichtenberg, F. Bravo Risi, R. Morales, D.P. Walsh, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner, J.A. Pedersen. Black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) harbor and excrete chronic wasting disease prions from infected blood meals. 70th Annual International Conference, Wildlife Disease Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 23-29 July 2022. (Contributed Oral)

Ketz, A. C., Storm, D. J., Turner, W. C., Walsh, D. P., Force of Infection Models of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission: Long-term disease Dynamics, Oral Presentation for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Office of Applied Sciences Seminar Series August 25, 2022,(Invited Oral)

Ochai, S.O., J. Crafford, A. Hassim, C. Byaruhanga, Y.-H. Huang, A. Hartmann, E.H. Dekker, O.L. van Schalkwyk, P.L. Kamath, W.C. Turner, and H. van Heerden. 2022. Immunological evidence of variation in exposure and immune response to Bacillus anthracis in herbivores of Kruger and Etosha National Parks. 19th Annual Congress, Southern African Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, East London, South Africa, 24-26 August 2022. (Contributed Oral)

Prentice, M.B., M.L.J. Gilbertson, D.J. Storm, W.C. Turner, D.P. Walsh, M.E. Pinkerton, P.L. Kamath. Metagenomic sequencing to identify the etiologic agent responsible for pneumonia-related mortality in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. 70th Annual International Conference, Wildlife Disease Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 23-29 July 2022. (Contributed Oral)

W.C. Turner and Y.-H. Huang. 2022. Environmental variation and host behaviors alter spatiotemporal patterns of anthrax outbreaks contrasting two African savannas. 10th International Conference on Bacillus anthracis, B. cereus and B. thuringiensis in Paris, France, April 24-28, 2022. (Contributed Oral)

W.C. Turner and J.W. Kilian. 2022. Challenges for wildlife conservation under climate and land-use changes in the Greater Etosha Landscape, Namibia. Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society Winter Meeting, March, 2022. (Contributed Oral)

W.C. Turner. 2022. Changing environments and wildlife disease: what might the future bring? South African Wildlife Management Association Annual Meeting, Bonamanzi, South Africa, 4-9 September 2022 (Invited Plenary)

W.C. Turner. 2021. Deer movement ecology, harvest management and CWD research at the Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, USDA-APHIS Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Tribal Nations and Stakeholder Update Meeting, December 7-9, 2021 (Invited Oral)


Data Publications

Gilbertson, M.L.J., W.C. Turner, D.J. Storm. 2022. White-tailed deer necropsy data from Wisconsin, 2017-2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BXKOI2