W. David Walter

United States Geological Survey — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

24h-index1.9kcitations125works1.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(45), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology(22), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding(19), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(19), Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies(17)

Publications125 total

Workflow to predict geochemical distributions of soil
USGS DOI Tool Production Environment·2025Open Access
Viral outbreak dynamics and evolution in wildlife at the interface with humans
Biology Letters·2025Open Access
Development of High‐Throughput Genomic Resources to Inform White‐Tailed Deer Population and Disease Management
Molecular Ecology Resources·2025Open Access
Author response for "Viral outbreak dynamics and evolution in wildlife at the interface with humans"
2025
Author response for "Viral outbreak dynamics and evolution in wildlife at the interface with humans"
2025
Expanding National‐Scale Wildlife Disease Surveillance Systems With Research Networks
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection methods for wild Cervidae
Preventive Veterinary Medicine·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Overview of North American Isolates of Chronic Wasting Disease Used for Strain Research
Pathogens·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Accounting for non‐random samples with distance sampling to estimate population density
Journal of Applied Ecology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Relatedness of White-Tailed Deer from Culling Efforts Within Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zones in Minnesota
Pathogens·2025Open Access
White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus (E. A. W. von Zimmerman, 1780)
Fascinating life sciences·2025
Neonatal antipredator tactics shape female movement patterns in large herbivores
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Comparison of Butorphanol-Azaperone-Medetomidine and Nalbuphine-Medetomidine-Azaperone in Free-Ranging Elk (Cervus canadensis) in Pennsylvania, USA
Journal of Wildlife Diseases·2024
Comparing risk of chronic wasting disease occurrence using Bayesian hierarchical spatial models and different surveillance types
Ecological Modelling·2024· 6 cited
Evaluation of DNA yield from various tissue and sampling sources for use in single nucleotide polymorphism panels
Scientific Reports·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Large‐scale assessment of genetic structure to assess risk of populations of a large herbivore to disease
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Prion forensics: a multidisciplinary approach to investigate CWD at an illegal deer carcass disposal site
Prion·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Predicting the odds of chronic wasting disease with Habitat Risk software
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Change-point models for identifying behavioral transitions in wild animals
Movement Ecology·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Spatial modeling of two mosquito vectors of West Nile virus using integrated nested Laplace approximations
Ecosphere·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Kurt C. VerCauteren(15), Justin W. Fischer(12), Scott E. Hygnstrom(6), H. E. Garrett(5), Charles W. Anderson(5), Larry D. Godsey(4), David M. Leslie(4), Michael L. Avery(3), Howard J. Kilpatrick(3), Tyler S. Evans(3), William L. Miller(3), Timothy R. Van Deelen(2), Michael J. Lavelle(2), Daniel P. Walsh(2), Nicholas J. Haley(2), Chris Siepker(2), Jürgen A. Richt(2), M. S. Kerley(2), K. P. Ladyman(2), J. W. Van Sambeek(2)