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Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

Creator:

Devan-Song, E. Anne

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Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...

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. I also thank my current committee members Jan Medlock, Dave Lytle, and Bree Beechler, and former
Individual Host to Population Scale Dynamics of Parasite Assemblages in African Buffalo of Kruger National Park, South Africa

Creator:

Glidden, Caroline K.

Abstract:

The last century has experienced a marked increase in emerging infectious disease (EID, hereafter) – jeopardizing human, domestic animal, and wildlife health. EIDs are commonly associated with spillover from one host species into a novel host species, with many destructive diseases, for both livestock and wildlife, emerging at the wildlife-livestock...

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University of Melbourne for funding this work. I also thank my graduate committee: Dave Lytle, Jan Medlock