Antelope conservation : from diagnosis to action

Content: Contributors vii    Preface and Acknowledgements x    Foreword xiii Richard D. Estes    1 Our Antelope Heritage     Why the Fuss? 1 Jakob Bro-Jorgensen    2 Conservation Challenges Facing African Savanna Ecosystems 11 Adam T. Ford, John M. Fryxell, and Anthony R. E. Sinclair    3 Population Regulation and Climate Change: The Future of Africa   s Antelope 32 J. Grant C. Hopcraft    4 Interspecific Resource Competition in Antelopes: Search for Evidence 51 Herbert H. T. Prins    5 Importance of Antelope Bushmeat Consumption in African Wet and Moist Tropical Forests 78 John E. Fa    6 Opportunities and Pitfalls in Realising the Potential Contribution of Trophy Hunting to Antelope Conservation 92 Nils Bunnefeld and E. J. Milner-Gulland    7 Antelope Diseases     the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 108 Richard Kock, Philippe Chardonnet, and Claire Risley    8 Hands-on Approaches to Managing Antelopes and their Ecosystems: A South African Perspective 137 Michael H. Knight, Peter Novellie, Stephen Holness, Jacobus du Toit, Sam Ferreira, Markus Hofmeyr, Christina Grant, Marna Herbst, and Angela Gaylard    9 DNA in the Conservation and Management of African Antelope 162 Eline D. Lorenzen    10 Biological Conservation Founded on Landscape Genetics: The Case of the Endangered Mountain Nyala in the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia 172 Anagaw Atickem, Eli K. Rueness, Leif E. Loe, and Nils C. Stenseth    11 The Use of Camera-Traps to Monitor Forest Antelope Species 190 Rajan Amin, Andrew E. Bowkett, and Tim Wacher    12 Reintroduction as an Antelope Conservation Solution 217 Mark R. Stanley Price    13 Desert Antelopes on the Brink: How Resilient is the Sahelo-Saharan Ecosystem? 253 John Newby, Tim Wacher, Sarah M. Durant, Nathalie Pettorelli, and Tania Gilbert    14 The Fall and Rise of the Scimitar-Horned Oryx: A Case Study of Ex-Situ Conservation and Reintroduction in Practice 280 Tim Woodfine and Tania Gilbert    15 Two Decades of Saiga Antelope Research: What have we Learnt? 297 E. J. Milner-Gulland and Navinder J. Singh    16 Synthesis: Antelope Conservation     Realising the Potential 315 Jakob Bro-Jorgensen    Appendix: IUCN Red List Status of Antelope Species April 2016 329    Index 332