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Reconstructing the history of a fragmented and heavily exploited red deer population using ancient and contemporary DNA.
BMC evolutionary biology - 26 Sept 2012
Rosvold Jørgen, Røed Knut H, Hufthammer Anne Karin, Andersen Reidar, Stenøien Hans K
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BACKGROUND: Red deer (Cervus elaphus) have been an important human resource for millennia, experiencing intensive human influence through habitat alterations, hunting and translocation of animals. In this study we investigate a time series of ancient and contemporary DNA from Norwegian red deer spanning about 7,000 years. Our main aim was to investigate how increasing agricultural land use, hunting pressure and...
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