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 viiPreface and Acknowledgements xForeword xiiiRichard D. Estes1 Our Antelope Heritage – Why the Fuss? 1Jakob Bro‐Jørgensen2 Conservation Challenges Facing African Savanna Ecosystems 11Adam T. Ford, John M. Fryxell, and Anthony R. E. Sinclair3 Population Regulation and Climate Change: The Future of Africa’s Antelope 32J. Grant C. Hopcraft4 Interspecific Resource Competition in Antelopes: Search for Evidence 51Herbert H. T. Prins5 Importance of Antelope Bushmeat Consumption in African Wet and Moist Tropical Forests 78John E. Fa6 Opportunities and Pitfalls in Realising the Potential Contribution of Trophy Hunting to Antelope Conservation 92Nils Bunnefeld and E. J. Milner‐Gulland7 Antelope Diseases – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 108Richard Kock, Philippe Chardonnet, and Claire Risley8 Hands‐on Approaches to Managing Antelopes and their Ecosystems: A South African Perspective 137Michael H. Knight, Peter Novellie, Stephen Holness, Jacobus du Toit, Sam Ferreira, Markus Hofmeyr, Christina Grant, Marna Herbst, and Angela Gaylard9 DNA in the Conservation and Management of African Antelope 162Eline D. Lorenzen10 Biological Conservation Founded on Landscape Genetics: The Case of the Endangered Mountain Nyala in the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia 172Anagaw Atickem, Eli K. Rueness, Leif E. Loe, and Nils C. Stenseth11 The Use of Camera‐Traps to Monitor Forest Antelope Species 190Rajan Amin, Andrew E. Bowkett, and Tim Wacher12 Reintroduction as an Antelope Conservation Solution 217Mark R. Stanley Price13 Desert Antelopes on the Brink: How Resilient is the Sahelo‐Saharan Ecosystem? 253John Newby, Tim Wacher, Sarah M. Durant, Nathalie Pettorelli, and Tania Gilbert14 The Fall and Rise of the Scimitar‐Horned Oryx: A Case Study of Ex‐Situ Conservation and Reintroduction in Practice 280Tim Woodfine and Tania Gilbert15 Two Decades of Saiga Antelope Research: What have we Learnt? 297E. J. Milner‐Gulland and Navinder J. Singh16 Synthesis: Antelope Conservation – Realising the Potential 315Jakob Bro‐JørgensenAppendix: IUCN Red List Status of Antelope Species April 2016 329Index 332

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