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Browsing Honours Theses by Author "Frasier, Timothy, 1976-"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)Industrial whaling in the early to mid 20th century severely depleted the population of blue whales in the North Atlantic. Due to this reduction in population it is likely that the current population of blue whales in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Accurate abundance estimates are important for the management of species. Many abundance estimates are based off of capture-mark-recapture analyses which have several limitations that can reduce the accuracy of abundance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) migrated to the St. Lawrence Estuary near the end of the Holocene glacial retreat, when dry land emerged. The population currently inhabiting the St. Lawrence shows strong ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Offspring that are a product of inbreeding often have reduced fitness, known as inbreeding depression. Though our understanding of the impacts of inbreeding depression in wild populations is in its infancy, it is thought ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)A concern of conservation biology is the viability of small, isolated populations because these are expected to lose genetic diversity at a greater rate than large populations due to genetic drift. Factors such as non-random ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is a vagile species occupying a large distributional throughout most of North America. Myotis lucifugus separate into female maternity colonies to rear their young, and males appear ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Knowing the age of individuals within a population provides a wealth of information that is important for understanding aspects of their biology, including many aspects that are important for conservation. Some of these ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Limited gene flow can divide a species into populations, forming population structure. Population structure is important for evolution and conservation so methods for detecting them were developed. With prior assumptions ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The St. Lawrence River beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) population is geographically and reproductively isolated from other beluga populations. This small population is also endangered, therefore learning the population ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)It is often difficult to asses the social and mating structure of populations through the usage of observational methods alone. Molecular methods give greater insight into patterns of relatedness within populations, and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Altruistic behavior, such as caring for the offspring of others, is an intriguing phenomenon observed in several mammalian species. One of the most successful theories for explaining how this behavior could have evolved ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Sable Island is a long, narrow sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Despite its small size the island has been home to a population of feral horses (Equus ferus caballus L.) since the early 1800s. These horses are ...
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