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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...

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Dissertation

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to my family: Sarah-Kate, Peter, Diana, Sean, Rachael, Nicolette, Luke, Sage, and Cole. Grandad and
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...

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Dissertation