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Pearch, Malcolm J. "Small mammal biodiversity in Nepal." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted: no access until June 2, 2014, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26193.

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Freshley, Megan Elizabeth. "Hey Mammal." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1784.

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This collection of poems is representative of the creative writing and literary studies completed during my time in Portland State University's Master of Fine Arts Program. Poetry workshops, seminars in prosody, syntax, and translation, and forays into the magic of rhetoric and defamiliarization in the novel have all contributed to the thinking and feeling shown in this work. Some themes that the collection circles around are: the alienating and sometimes ecstatic relationship between the identities of civilized human and human-as-animal, the processes of falling in and out of faith in a great
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Wong, Dorothy L. "Public perception of mammals and mammal conservation in Fairfax County, Virginia." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4588.

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Thesis (M.S.)--George Mason University, 2009.<br>Vita: p. 160. Thesis director: E.C.M. Parsons. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-159). Also issued in print.
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Klanjšček, Tin. "Dynamic energy budgets and bioaccumulation : a model for marine mammals and marine mammal populations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34623.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 2006.<br>"June 2006."<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Energy intake of individuals affects growth of organisms and, therefore, populations. Persistent lipophilic toxicants acquired with the energy can bioaccumulate and harm individuals. Marine mammals are particularly vulnerable because of their large energy requirements, and transfer of energy and toxicants from mothers to their young during gestation and lactation. Dynamic energy budget (DEB) models for energy assimilation and utilization, coupled with pharm
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Pereira, Patrícia de Sousa. "Characterization of mammal salivary peptides." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/10135.

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Mestrado em Bioquímica<br>A saliva e os seus componentes desempenham diversas funções na cavidade oral, tais como lubrificação, proteção dos tecidos orais e ação antimicrobiana. Entre os componentes responsáveis por esses papéis estão diversos péptidos cuja evolução e presença na saliva de outras espécies de mamíferos não está clara. No presente trabalho, duas classes destes péptidos, as cistatinas salivares e a timosina β4, foram analisadas usando ferramentas de genómica e de proteómica em conjunto. Para os estudos de proteómica foi colhida saliva de cão, rato, coelho e cordeiro, sendo a sep
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Klug, Kevin Joseph, Sean Rice, Ina Kundu, Hao Chen, Elizabeth Marquez, and Yizhou Zhong. "Lightweight Small Mammal GPS Tracker." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297660.

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A position beaconing system for tracking small mammals, such as the Golden Lion Tamarin, was developed and tested. GPS acquires location of the animal. The system utilizes a VHF radio transmitter tuned to 144.390 MHz, which is located in the amateur radio band. APRS was selected as the protocol for position, transmission, and recovery. This allows users to benefit from any existing APRS enabled devices. The beacon was designed by attempting to optimize operational longevity and minimize size. Consequently, the system is implemented on a single board and enclosed for protection. As the system m
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Kundu, Ina Annesha, Kevin Joseph Klug, Sean Rice, Hao Chen, Elizabeth Marquez, and Yizhou Zhong. "Lightweight Small Mammal GPS Tracker." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297636.

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A position beaconing system for tracking small mammals, such as the Golden Lion Tamarin, was developed and tested. GPS acquires location of the animal. The system utilizes a VHF radio transmitter tuned to 144.390 MHz, which is located in the amateur radio band. APRS was selected as the protocol for position, transmission, and recovery. This allows users to benefit from any existing APRS enabled devices. The beacon was designed by attempting to optimize operational longevity and minimize size. Consequently, the system is implemented on a single board and enclosed for protection. As the system m
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Rice, Sean Christopher, Kevin Klug, Ina Kundu, et al. "Lightweight Small Mammal GPS Tracker." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297746.

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A position beaconing system for tracking small mammals, such as the Golden Lion Tamarin, was developed and tested. GPS acquires location of the animal. The system utilizes a VHF radio transmitter tuned to 144.390 MHz, which is located in the amateur radio band. APRS was selected as the protocol for position, transmission, and recovery. This allows users to benefit from any existing APRS enabled devices. The beacon was designed by attempting to optimize operational longevity and minimize size. Consequently, the system is implemented on a single board and enclosed for protection. As the system m
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Kundu, Ina, Sean Rice, Kevin Klug, Hao Chen, Elizabeth Marquez, and Yizhou Zhong. "Collar-Integrated Small Mammal GPS Tracker." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579699.

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ITC/USA 2013 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Ninth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 21-24, 2013 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV<br>A position beaconing system for tracking small mammals, such as the Golden Lion Tamarin, was developed and tested. GPS acquires location of the animal. The system utilizes a VHF radio transmitter tuned to 144.390 MHz, which is located in the amateur radio band. APRS was selected as the protocol for position, transmission, and recovery. This allows users to benefit from any existing APRS enabled de
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Clements, Michelle N. "Phenology in a wild mammal population." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14599.

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Meek, Sarah. "Small mammal pollination in Protea Witzenbergiana." Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25926.

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Protea witzenbergiana possesses some features common to that of therophilous Proteas in the Cape Floristic Region, such as a cup-shaped, downwards-hanging inflorescence surrounded by red involucral bracts, which emits a yeasty, musky odour. The flowering season occurs in the winter and the plants occur in small, localized and isolated stands in the Witzenberg fynbos. However, the species has never been investigated as to whether it is pollinated by small mammals. This study investigated whether the plant is rodent-pollinated, and if so to what extent by various species. Fieldwork was carried o
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Fraser, Sheena Mary. "Mammals in Late Neolithic Orkney (with reference to mammal bone recovered from Links of Noltland, Westray)." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26007.

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Excavation of thirty skulls, twenty-eight cattle and two sheep from the foundation course of a Late Neolithic structure at Links of Noltland (LON), Structure 9, is the starting point for this thesis, which investigates the economic and socio-cultural relationships of cattle and other mammals on Orkney communities between 3000 and 2500 BC. The LON settlement was located on a machair plain in Westray, the most N-W island within the Orkney archipelago (HY 428 493). Male and female cattle skulls were inter-mixed within the LON foundation course so a “bull cult” is not represented. The sequence fro
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McCaslin, Lauren E. "Documenting Marine Mammal Behavior and Evaluating the Benefits and Consequences of Viewing Marine Mammals in Southcentral Alaska." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3128.

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Marine mammals are in a precarious conservation position because of anthropogenic impacts and historic perceptions that they are a consumable commodity. In light of changing abiotic conditions, further evaluation is needed on the habitat use, behavior, and interactions among marine mammals. Conservation legislation has helped protect species, but the greatest ground swelling may be the advent of the commercial whale watching industry. The feeding grounds in Alaskan waters have made this area a prime tourism location, and these nutrient-rich waters have resulted in a confluence of marine mammal
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Hall, Amy Louise. "Small mammal movement patterns in habitat mosaics." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399622.

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Van, Pletzen Liezl. "The large mammal fauna from Klasies River." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51991.

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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The large mammal faunal sample, excavated since 1984 from the Late Pleistocene Klasies River main site, was studied. There are 27 species in eight genera represented. The bovids from the LBS member (110 000 years) and the Upper member (70 000 years) shows an increase in grazers relative to the fauna from the SAS member (100 000 years). This confirms previous research. The study of body part frequencies does not confirm the selective transport of the carcasses of larger bovids or that scavenging played an important r
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Kuhn, Nicola. "Community ecology of small-mammal pollinated proteas." Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14252.

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The floral characteristics of small-mammal pollinated (SMP) Protea species have been assessed in a number of previous studies. This study aimed to determine whether the inflorescences of Protea canaliculata, Protea sulphurea and Protea humiflora possess these traits and are pollinated by small mammal species. An additional aim of this study was to determine whether there is a variation in pollinator efficiency of different animal species. Floral characteristics that may influence plantpollinator interactions were measured, including floral dimensions, nectar production and spectral reflectance
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Durban, John William. "Bayesian methods for marine mammal population assessment." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2002. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU602316.

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Policy-makers increasingly need to use scientific data that are imprecise. This problem is particularly apparent for marine mammal management issues, where practical research constraints leave scientists and managers with the problem of drawing inference from sparse data. Effective use of such data therefore places great demands on our methods of data analysis and statistical inference. In this thesis I introduce novel Bayesian methods for the analysis of data on marine mammal abundance and trends. Bayesian methods are applied to a suite of case studies to inform current management issues of i
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Hulme, Philip Eric. "Small mammal herbivory and plant recruitment in grassland." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46352.

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Ecke, Frauke. "Effects of landscape patterns on small mammal abundance." Doctoral thesis, Luleå, 2003. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1544/2003/30/index.html.

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Linderhed, Anna. "Marine mammal behavior response to sonars, a review." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97226.

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During the last decades the problems caused by anthropogenic sound and noise in oceans have been recognized in public, by governments, and military. With the use of active sonar, different choices can be made to minimize the risk of damaging or disturbing marine mammals. For this purpose knowledge of sonar disturbance is crucial. There are methods for time or area planning, i.e. when and where to use active sonars, to avoid marine mammals. The purpose of this work is to find information in literature on marine mammal behaviour reactions to the sound of sonar pings, and to evaluate which of two
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Cuaron, Alfredo D. "Land-cover changes and mammal conservation in Mesoamerica." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368617.

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Perkovich, Cynthia L. "Responses of oaks to mammal and insect herbivory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619098714170774.

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Berens, Jeffrey David. "Morphological Differences and Diversity of Small Mammal Species." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27710.

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Small mammals play important roles in ecosystems, but are often overlooked due to their small size and plentiful abundance. Two studies evaluated the morphological differences and diversity of small mammal species based on how they react to different environmental conditions. The first study analyzed the morphological differences of skulls between and within two species of Peromyscus species due to differences in shape, size, and geographic position. This study also determined if landmark-based geometric morphometrics could reliably discriminate between the two species. The second study analyz
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Degrassi, Allyson Lenora. "Impacts Of Forest Disturbance On Small Mammal Distribution." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/640.

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Natural habitat in the eastern United States has diminished over the past century because of the effects of invasive species. Both plant and animal invaders can alter habitat structure and may decrease survival of native species. The degree to which an invasive species alters ecosystem function depends on the functional characteristics of affected species and the resulting cascading effects. The loss of important native species, such as foundation species, can potentially influence the structure and distribution of animal communities because of the foundation species' unique ecosystem roles. T
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Tsubamoto, Takehisa. "The Pondaung mammal fauna : an analysis of a terrestrial mammal fauna in the latest middle Eocene of central Myanmar (Southeast Asia)." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150841.

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Scheidecker, Elizabeth M. "Wavelet analysis of bioacoustic scattering and marine mammal vocalizations." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FScheidecker.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): D. Benjamin Reeder, John A. Colosi. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97). Also available online.
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Mullins, Ruth Louise. "Characterizing marine mammal stranding events along the Texas coast." Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/86047.

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The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network (TMMSN) is a valuable data resource for the marine mammal community. Limitations of funding and personnel severely impact the ability of the Network to maintain impeccable databases. This research constructed an application to address database complications and focused on investigating the species identification, temporal and spatial trends for stranding events along the Texas coast. From 1980 to 2004, Tursiops truncatus accounted for approximately 80% of all stranding events. The remainder was 20 additional whale and dolphin species known to reside in
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Hamrick, William Wall. "Small mammal habitat associations in a fragmented agricultural landscape." Click here to access thesis, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2007/william_w_hamrick/hamrick_william_w_200708_ms.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.<br>"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." In Biology, under the direction of C. Ray Chandler. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-74) and appendices.
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Harrison, Annabel Kate. "Dispersal and compensatory population dynamics in a harvested mammal." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2903/.

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Populations of wild birds and mammals are often harvested for sport, subsistence or commerce. Sustainable exploitation is an important aspect of environmental management and is critical to human wellbeing. However, our inability to sustainably harvest even well studied populations is often due to poor demographic data and a lack of understanding of critical biological processes. A key component of sustainable harvesting is the density-dependant feedback between vital rates (births, deaths, immigration and emigration) and population density, as this mechanism provides populations with the capac
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Severson, Jared. "Modeling and frequency tracking of marine mammal whistle calls." Thesis, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4301.

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CIVINS<br>Approved for public release, distribution unlimited<br>Marine mammal whistle calls present an attractive medium for covert underwater communications. High quality models of the whistle calls are needed in order to synthesize natural-sounding whistles with embedded information. Since the whistle calls are composed of frequency modulated harmonic tones, they are best modeled as a weighted superposition of harmonically related sinusoids. Previous research with bottlenose dolphin whistle calls has produced synthetic whistles that sound too clean for use in a covert communications system.
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Kundu, Auni, Brianne Noriega, Connor O'Brien, Corey Speros, and Dawei Ju. "Time Difference of Arrival for Small Mammal Tracking System." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/577466.

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ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA<br>This paper describes in depth the specifics of a tracking system for small mammals. This method is based on time difference of arrival. This project was deployed for proof of concept and demonstrates the advantages of time difference of arrival over GPS based schemes employed by previous teams.
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Hayward, Adam David. "Parasites and life history variation in a wild mammal." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5675.

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate associations between parasite infection and host life-history variation in the wild Soay sheep population of the islands of St Kilda, NW Scotland. Studying host-parasite interactions in wild animal populations is of interest because of the importance of heterogeneity in resource availability, genetics, and environmental conditions in determining resistance to parasites, with implications for human populations and wildlife conservation and management. However, very few studies are able to investigate these associations in a longitudinal manner, which
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Bedington, Michael. "Drift modelling of marine mammal carcases in coastal waters." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2015. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/drift-modelling-of-marine-mammal-carcases-in-coastal-waters(c1165a29-6c4c-4b6f-b079-e39d4ff164e5).html.

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A floating object's drift is governed by its buoyancy, shape, and the wind, waves and currents it experiences. Here, I develop a drift modelling framework for marine mammal carcases in coastal waters. The resulting models were run forwards and backwards in time to provide insights into strategies for environmental monitoring under two scenarios. The first explored the beach search options for carcases resulting from potentially fatal collisions between tidal-stream turbines and marine mammals. The second applied the reverse problem for known-location mass strandings to highlight potential at-s
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Ressing, Sara Marlene. "Effects of heavy metals on two small mammal species." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/947.

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Research on the chronic effects of toxic chemicals on individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems is imperative to regulate pollutants and preserve threatened species and habitats. I designed a two-pronged study to investigate the effects of heavy metal contaminants on small mammal populations, communities and body condition. To compare population and community metrics, I conducted a year-long mark-and-release study from over 5,400 trap nights on a contaminated and reference site within Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, a Superfund site. During the second phase, I compared conta
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Pennarossa, G. "CENTROSOME BIOGENESIS AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSE IN MAMMAL PARTHENOGENETIC CELLS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/169555.

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Human parthenotes have been proposed as a source of embryonic stem cells despite the high incidence of aneuploidy described in parthenotes of most mammalian species. Through a comparative analysis between parthenogenetic and bi-parental cells lines we found that parthenogenetic cells are affected by chromosomal instability and centrosome amplification. We provide evidence that both alterations are determined by the lack of paternal centriole, normally contributed by the sperm at the time of fertilization, but parthenogenetic cell lines activate a series of adaptive mechanisms that allow them t
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Robinson, Matthew R. "Selection and genetic variation of weaponry in a large mammal." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3479.

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Understanding the maintenance of the variation that is typically observed in natural populations has been a central aim of evolutionary biology. In a feral population of Soay sheep on the island of Hirta, St. Kilda there is a phenotypic polymorphism for horns with males growing either normal or reduced (scurred) horns, and females growing either normal, scurred or no (polled) horns, with further variation in horn size within each of the horn types. This thesis examines the potential factors which maintain these polymorphisms. I first present an overview of the literature relating to the factor
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Jaaman, Saifullah A. "Marine mammal distribution and interactions with fisheries in East Malaysia." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430421.

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This study aimed to provide scientific information on the status of marine mammals and threats from directed takes and incidental catches in fisheries in East Malaysia. Recommendations for the conservation of the animals and guidelines for further research are also provided. All available information on sightings, strandings, skeletal remains and threats to the marine mammals in East Malaysia prior to this study were reviewed.  A series of broad and aerial sighting surveys was conducted in the marine and fluvial waters.  The objective was to explore and observe marine mammals at sea, and to de
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Plavsic, Militsa Justine. "Small mammal responses to fire in the Okavango Delta, Botswana." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612817.

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Clark, Sarah, and Joshua X. Dr Samuels. "Mammal Community Structure Analysis of the Gray Fossil Site, TN." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2021/presentations/63.

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The early Pliocene age Gray Fossil Site (GFS) was relatively recently found, with much still to be discovered and examined, and represents one of only a few sites of its age in eastern North America. It has been noted that the diverse faunal remains found at GFS are unique compared to what have been found at other fossil sites in North America from the same time period. Studying mammalian community structures at fossil sites can provide an abundance of information about the past environment and species adaptations to it, such as niche occupation of species, resource partitioning, and interacti
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Keith, Anna. "Molecular Responses to Catastrophic Molting in a Wild Marine Mammal." Scholarly Commons, 2021. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3745.

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While most mammals shed their hair and skin either continuously or seasonally, northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) undergo an annual catastrophic molt, in which they shed their entire fur and underlying skin layer in the span of just three weeks. Due to the energetic and thermoregulatory constraints of molting and the large distances between their coastal rookeries and foraging grounds, elephant seals must remain on land and fast for the duration of their molt. Previous studies of molting northern elephant seals have examined endocrine and metabolic adjustments to fasting, but no
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Marques, Sara Isabel Ferreira. "Mammal choices in heterogeneous landscape of the Baixo Vouga Lagunar." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/13762.

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Mestrado em Biologia Aplicada - Ecologia, Biodiversidade e Gestão de Ecossistemas<br>The relation between landscape structure and species distribution is a major question in landscape ecology. Terrestrial mammals are particularly susceptible to the spatial features, such as habitat type and landscape complexity, as well as to resource availability (e.g. shelter and food supply). The main objective of this thesis was to describe and understand the patterns of terrestrial non-volant mammal species richness, distribution and abundance in the heterogeneous landscape of Baixo Vouga Lagunar, north-w
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Hodgetts, Timothy James. "Enacting connectivity : woodland mammal conservation practices in England & Wales." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8ff9ab6f-0472-45d3-bd24-b76e2f9bbd74.

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In recent years ideas about connectivity have become increasingly influential in theories pertaining to wildlife conservation. These ideas range from concerns with spatial habitat linkages or species' movements, to the forms of connection existing between 'people' and 'nature'. This thesis is concerned with how these various forms of connectivity are enacted in wildlife conservation through varied spatial practices. Following Mol (2002), I suggest that these modes of connectivity are enacted not separately but as a multiple. Indeed, through tracing how connectivity is enacted in a series of co
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Cambron, Richard. "Study of a Small Mammal Population in Bowling Green, Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2202.

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The small mammal population of a restricted study area was live-trapped on the University farm at Western Kentucky University from November 1984 through November 1985. A total of 1800 trap-nights yielded 81 different individuals representing five species. Members of the genera Peromyscus and Microtus were the dominant individuals representing over 90% of the total. Also caught were Mus musculus and Blarina brevicauda. The members of the two major genera were examined for population size and dynamics. In addition, a statistical analysis was carried out on the randomness of the location of the h
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Trostel, Kendrick A. "Investigation of causes of the 10-year hare cycle." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26651.

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This thesis combined data from a trapping and radio-telemetry study of snowshoe hares at Kluane Lake, Yukon from January 1984 through August 1985 with data collected at the same site from 1977-83 (Boutin et al. 1986; Krebs et al. 1986) to examine possible causes for the 10-year cycle in density of snowshoe hares. In Chapter 2 I used data on causes of mortality, from a radio-telemetry study of a cyclic snowshoe hare population during 1978-84, to consider the importance of predation in causing the hare cycle. I found that predation during winter was the largest source of mortality for snowshoe
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Lambert, Catherine Marie Sarah. "Dynamics and viability of a cougar population in the Pacific Northwest." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2003/c%5Flambert%5F100903.pdf.

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Gude, Justin Albert. "Applying risk allocation theory in a large mammal predator-prey system." Thesis, Montana State University, 2004. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2004/gude/GudeJ04.pdf.

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Understanding the behaviorally-mediated indirect effects of predators in ecosystems requires knowledge of predator-prey behavioral interactions, and the risk allocation hypothesis can be used to make predictions about such interactions. In predator-ungulate-plant systems, empirical research quantifying how predators affect ungulate group sizes and distribution, in the context of other influential variables, is particularly needed. We determined non-predation variables that affect elk (Cervus elaphus) group sizes and distribution on a winter range in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), usi
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Yue, Sam. "Effects of oil palm plantations on mammal communities in northeastern Borneo." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50032.

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Agricultural expansion is considered the single largest threat to biodiversity. In Southeast Asia, the expansion of oil palm plantations is one of the leading causes of deforestation and habitat fragmentation. Studies have consistently shown that oil palm plantations support considerably lower biodiversity than native forest, yet little research has assessed how characteristics of the plantations influence diversity, or how edge effects of oil palm might impact species living in adjacent forest. I investigated whether 1) mammal diversity was different in oil palm plantations versus forest, 2)
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Dobson, Geoffrey P. "Metabolic regulation in skeletal muscle during exercise : a fish-mammal comparison." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27068.

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The aim of the present investigation was to examine the control of anaerobic glycogenolysis in working and fatigued skeletal muscle. The two animals chosen for the study were a teleost fish and the laboratory rat. The rationale behind using a comparative approach to investigate fundamental questions on metabolic control resides in the different abilities of each animal to perform exercise, and to their markedly different myofibrillar organization. In the process of defining the hierarchical recruitment of fuel and pathway selection in rainbow trout fast-twitch white skeletal muscle, it was cl
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Bowman, Jeffrey C. "The spatial structure of small-mammal populations in a managed forest." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0029/NQ62168.pdf.

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Watson, Rebecca Louise. "The causes and consequences of immune variation in a wild mammal." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25489.

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The immune system provides protection against parasites and is crucial for survival, but mounting, maintaining and controlling an immune response is expensive. Under limited resources these costs can lead to investment trade-offs between life history traits in order to maximize an individual's fitness. Understanding how these trade-offs relate to immunity can be important in understanding individual variation in fitness and the broader ecological implications that this may have in a population. In the wild there is evidence of trade-offs between life history traits and immunity, but there are
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