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Effects of Diversity on Emerging Infectious Diseases of Amphibians

Creator:

Snyder, Paul W.

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Species declines and extinctions have been recorded across taxa as evidence of an ongoing global biodiversity crisis. Amphibians are at the forefront of these declines with nearly one third of amphibian species estimated to be at risk of extinction. While many factors contribute to population declines and extinctions, the role...

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Dissertation

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Dang and Dr. Carmen Harjoe, who are caring, kind, fun, brilliant, and made me feel like I belong
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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work would not have been possible without you. Thank-you Drs. Lindsay Biga, Lori Kayes, Carmen Harjoe
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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Dissertation