Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Natural populations are often difficult and costly to study, due to the plethora of confounding processes and variables present. This is of particular importance when dealing with managed species. Ungulates, for example, act as both consumers and prey sources; they also provide economic benefit through harvest, and as such, are of high ecological and economic value. I addressed… more Full Text: POPULATION GENETICS AND GUT MICROBIOME COMPOSITION REVEAL SUBDIVISIONS AND SPACE USE IN A GENERALIST AND SPECIALIST UNGULATE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …