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Our population density estimates assume that the entire hunt area is suitable elk habitat.
We used elk count data collected at the hunt area scale from WGFD 2004 2007 Job Completion Reports [JCRs, 36].
The increases in brucellosis seroprevalence were correlated with elk densities at the elk management unit, or hunt area, scale (mean 2070 km2; range = [95 10237]).
We used the most recent population trend count since 2004 divided by the total area (km2) of the hunt area to estimate elk density (Table S1, Fig. S1).
We assumed that the set neighboring regions for hunt area j, {j}, were those hunt areas that shared boundaries with area j.
To predict the site-level seroprevalence we added an additional record to the dataset for each hunt area and its covariates with Year equal to 1991 or 2009.
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Meanwhile, hunt areas adjacent to Idaho increased in seroprevalence and had the highest seroprevalence in 2009.
All samples were assigned to hunt areas, which were nested within larger herd units (Fig. 1).
Therefore, we combined several hunt areas around the feeding grounds into larger spatial units, although we still refer to them as hunt areas in the analysis (Fig. 1, S1, and Table S1).
Not surprisingly, the hunt areas with the highest seroprevalence in 1991 were those that contained supplemental feeding grounds.
We lacked information on elk density for two hunt areas, however, these areas also lacked any disease testing data (Figs. 1 and S1, Table S1).
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