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Peter Arcese
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 189
Citations - 12206
Peter Arcese is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Inbreeding. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 185 publications receiving 11280 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Arcese include University of Wisconsin-Madison & University of Queensland.
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Serengeti II : dynamics, management, and conservation of an ecosystem
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an up-to-date understanding of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in East Africa, home to one of the largest and most diverse populations of animals in the world.
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Bushmeat Hunting, Wildlife Declines, and Fish Supply in West Africa
Justin S. Brashares,Justin S. Brashares,Peter Arcese,Moses K. Sam,Peter Coppolillo,Anthony R. E. Sinclair,Andrew Balmford,Andrew Balmford +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that years of poor fish supply coincided with increased hunting in nature reserves and sharp declines in biomass of 41 wildlife species, highlighting the urgent need to develop cheap protein alternatives to bushmeat and to improve fisheries management by foreign and domestic fleets to avert extinctions of tropical wildlife.
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Effects of population density and supplemental food on reproduction in song sparrows
Peter Arcese,James N. M. Smith +1 more
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Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck
TL;DR: It is reported that song sparrows that survived a severe population bottleneck were a non-random subset of the pre-crash population with respect to inbreeding, and that natural selection favoured outbred individuals, suggesting that inbreeding depression was expressed in the face of an environmental challenge.
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Are Integrated Conservation-Development Projects (ICDPs) Sustainable? On the conservation of large mammals in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: Initiatives to link rural development and species conservation, known as integrated conservation-development projects (ICDPs), have been launched with considerable fanfare and funding around the world.