ESTIMATING OCCURRENCE, PREVALENCE, AND DETECTION OF AMPHIBIAN PATHOGENS: INSIGHTS FROM OCCUPANCY MODELS.

Understanding the distribution of pathogens across landscapes and their prevalence within host populations is a common aim of wildlife managers. Despite the need for unbiased estimates of pathogen occurrence and prevalence for planning effective management interventions, many researchers fail to account for imperfect pathogen detection. Instead raw data are often reported, which may lead to ineffective, or even detrimental, management actions.