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Filtering by: Creator Epps, Clinton W. Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Subject African buffalo

Navigating food and foes in the savanna : nutrition, infections and spatial ecology in African buffalo

Creator:

Combrink, Hendrik J.

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The intricate relationship between wildlife health and the quality of their environment is well established, with technological advances increasing our understanding and aiding the unraveling of underlying mechanisms. Large herbivores require forage of sufficient quality to maintain their condition to reproduce and survive, all while warding off parasites and predators...

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Dissertation

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/10.1093/icb/icr058 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr058 6 Frost, W. H. (1976). “Some conceptions of
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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., Fulton, R. W., Lehenbauer, T. W., Step, D. L., & Confer, A. W. (2010). The epidemiology of bovine