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Filtering by: Creator Hooft, Emilie E. Advisor Epps, Clinton W. Subject Animal diversity -- Tanzania

Landscape features affecting genetic diversity and structure in East African ungulate species

Creator:

Crowhurst, Rachel Selena

Abstract:

Habitat loss and fragmentation is a crisis affecting wildlife worldwide. In Tanzania, East Africa, a dramatic and recent (<80 years) expansion in human settlement and agriculture threatens to reduce gene flow among protected areas for many species of large mammals. Wildlife linkages can mitigate population isolation, but linkage designs lacking...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

is given by the equation FST = 1- e t/2Ne [Wright 1943] where t is the time in generations