Assembling a safe and effective toolbox for integrated flea control and plague mitigation: Fipronil experiments with prairie dogs

• David Eads ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: deads@usgs.gov

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-017X

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• Travis Livieri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Prairie Wildlife Research, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9092-7499

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• Tyler Tretten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

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• John Hughes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

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• Nick Kaczor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado Front Range National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Arvada, Colorado, United States of America

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• Emily Halsell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado Front Range National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Arvada, Colorado, United States of America

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• Shaun Grassel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Phillip Dobesh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Forest Service, Wall Ranger District, Wall, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Eddie Childers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Park Service, Badlands National Park, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America

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• David Lucas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado Front Range National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Arvada, Colorado, United States of America

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• Lauren Noble,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Michele Vasquez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Anna Catherine Grady,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8085-5687

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• Dean Biggins

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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