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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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    presented on December 6, 2021. Title: Emergent Properties of Animal Social Systems: Five Stories in

  • Infectious diseases of the Felidae : parasite communities from miniature to massive

    Creator:
    Broughton, Heather M.
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    Direct anthropogenic stressors have caused drastic declines in wildlife populations over the past two centuries. In the face of these threats, spillover of infectious disease from domestic animals and livestock into wildlife, and novel interactions between parasites and pathogens within wildlife communities, have further suppressed already vulnerable populations. As management...
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    reservoir for sympatrically dwelling human and animal populations. Using a healthy population of 129

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

    Creator:
    Couch, Claire E.
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    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...
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    parameters can be utilized to evaluate the physiological status of an animal, and relate it to the animal's