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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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Chapter 2: Caroline K. Glidden led analyses and writing and was involved in field

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

Creator:: Spaan, Robert Steven
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 2000), domestic livestock (Michel & Bengis 2012) and people in the case of zoonotic infections

Rift Valley fever in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : basic epidemiology and the role of bovine tuberculosis coinfection

Creator:: Beechler, Brianna
Abstract:: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic viral disease native to the African continent. Outbreaks tend to occur in the wet seasons, and can affect numerous mammalian species including African buffalo. It is debated how the virus survives the inter-epidemic period when it is not detected in mammalian populations,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: wildlife (Michel, 2006). BTB has been spreading south to north within our study area, Kruger National

Stress Physiology in Free-ranging Female African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : Environmental Drivers, and Immunological and Infection Consequences

Creator:: Spaan, Johannie M.
Abstract:: Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGMs) are commonly used as indicators of an animal’s stress response in behavioral and eco-physiological studies. Stress in wild animals represents an immediate measure of the physiological response to changes in the environment, and, potentially, a prospective assessment of the animal’s health and well-being. In wild mammals,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Sinclair 1977; Prins 1996; Winterbach 1998; Jolles 2003; Cross et al. 2005; Michel and Bengis 2012

Disease invasion dynamics : brucellosis and tuberculosis in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Creator:: Gorsich, Erin E.
Abstract:: Emerging infectious diseases in wild animals threaten global biodiversity as well as domestic animal and human health. Their unprecedented increase in conjunction with anthropogenically induced range shifts of endemic pathogens exposes hosts to novel parasite combinations, lending urgency to research on disease dynamics in wildlife systems. In natural populations, hosts...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: test. Aggregation was assessed based on the corrected moment estimate, k (Wilson et al., 2002

Hidden dynamics : community ecology and costs of parasite infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Creator:: Henrichs, Brian
Abstract:: Most wild animals are concurrently infected with multiple parasite species for most of their lives. These parasite species assemble into rich and diverse communities, with parasites using host tissues for growth and reproduction as well as evolving strategies to evade the host immune system. The net effect of these ecological...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: populations (Michel et al 2006,Walker et al 2011, Caron et al 2013, Dion and Lambin 2012), making buffalo an

Trade-offs in a pathogen-rich world : genetic and maternal drivers of variation in costly resistance and immunity in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Creator:: Tavalire, Hannah F.
Abstract:: Disease acts as a powerful selective force in natural systems, driving the rapid evolution of resistance in the host. In the face of a myriad of pathogenic challenges in natural systems, hosts must balance the energetic needs of maintenance and reproduction with costly resistance mechanisms. In this dissertation I will...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: negative based on absorbance thresholds optimized for bTB infection in African buffalo (Michel et al

From Microbes to Megafauna: The Ecology of Gut Microbiomes in Wild Herbivores

Creator:: Couch, Claire E.
Abstract:: All mammals host communities of commensal microbes in and on their bodies. Recent technological advances, combined with experimental studies in laboratory animals, are beginning to reveal the ubiquitous links between the gut microbiome and host disease, metabolism, immunity, and numerous other host functions. A new challenge of microbiome research is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: were conducted by Holly K. Arnold. Rachel Crowhurst and Marci Witczak contributed to laboratory

Investigating variation in immunity and infection risk in wild ungulates

Creator:: Dugovich, Brian S.
Abstract:: In the midst of the sixth mass extinction, understanding wildlife disease spillover is critical to maintaining protected wildlife areas. Studying ecoimmunology and wildlife disease ecology helps to understand immune and disease traits in an ecological context, which is invaluable in preventing pathogen spillover between livestock and wildlife. To investigate this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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

Creator:: Devan-Song, E. Anne
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ............................................ 93 4.3.4. K-means clustering of networks to assign group membership of each trade network

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Individual Host to Population Scale Dynamics of Parasite Assemblages in African Buffalo of Kruger National Park, South Africa

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

Rift Valley fever in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : basic epidemiology and the role of bovine tuberculosis coinfection

Stress Physiology in Free-ranging Female African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : Environmental Drivers, and Immunological and Infection Consequences

Disease invasion dynamics : brucellosis and tuberculosis in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Hidden dynamics : community ecology and costs of parasite infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Trade-offs in a pathogen-rich world : genetic and maternal drivers of variation in costly resistance and immunity in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

From Microbes to Megafauna: The Ecology of Gut Microbiomes in Wild Herbivores

Investigating variation in immunity and infection risk in wild ungulates

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

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