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Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
David P. Mallon, Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, Manchester, Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
Contributors vii
Preface and Acknowledgements x
Foreword xiii
Richard D. Estes
1 Our Antelope Heritage – Why the Fuss? 1
Jakob Bro-Jørgensen
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-Jørgensen
Appendix: IUCN Red List Status of Antelope Species April 2016 329
Index 332
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