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Dispersal Behavior in African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : Tradeoffs Between Nutritional Resources and Disease Exposure

Creator:

Spaan, Robert Steven

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Dispersal facilitates population health and maintains resilience in species via gene flow. Adult dispersal occurs in some species, is often facultative, and is poorly understood, but has important management implications, particularly with respect to disease spread. Although the role of adult dispersal in spreading disease has been documented, the potential...

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Masters Thesis

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management (Simonsen, Siegismund & Arctander 1998; van Hooft, Groen & Prins 2003). On the other hand
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...

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Masters Thesis

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