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Effective population size dynamics reveal impacts of historic climatic events and recent anthropogenic pressure in African elephants.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2008
Okello J B A, Wittemyer G, Rasmussen H B, Arctander P, Nyakaana S, Douglas-Hamilton I, Siegismund H R
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Two hundred years of elephant hunting for ivory, peaking in 1970-1980s, caused local extirpations and massive population declines across Africa. The resulting genetic impacts on surviving populations have not been studied, despite the importance of understanding the evolutionary repercussions of such human-mediated events on this keystone species. Using Bayesian coalescent-based genetic methods to evaluate...
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