Theses - Zoology
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Fossoriality In Snakes: Perspectives From Morphology And The Fossil Record
Snakes are a speciose clade of squamates that have diversified into almost all habitats, all with the same elongate limbless body plan. This thesis aims to improve scientific understanding of snake evolution by focusing ... -
Tradeoffs and co-benefits among impacts of contrasting livestock systems
Livestock farming generates some striking externalities; whilst it provides 30% of human dietary protein, it occupies 75% of agricultural land, emits 14-17% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and uses more ... -
Maximising Return on Investment for Species Conservation
Determining how best to allocate scarce funds is crucial to the action plans that governments and conservation organizations are developing to prevent species from going extinct. A Return on Investment (ROI) approach that ... -
The demography of Red Sea reef fishes since the Last Glacial Maximum
Coral reefs are at increasing risk of climate-induced mass bleaching events and mass mortality, yet we do not know how coral reef fish species respond to habitat loss on temporal and spatial scales relevant to climate ...
