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By Theo Busschau MSc Supervisor: Prof. Savel Daniels Co-supervisor: Werner Conradie Introduction Eastern Cape Forest Project funded by the FBIP The effect of habitat fragmentation on faunal diversity of Eastern Cape forests South

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By Theo Busschau MSc

Supervisor: Prof. Savel Daniels Co-supervisor: Werner Conradie

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Introduction

 Eastern Cape Forest Project funded by the FBIP The effect of habitat fragmentation on faunal diversity of Eastern Cape forests  South African forests are largely fragmented with high diversity  >420 described reptile species in South Africa but forest reptile diversity is

relatively low

 Few studies on forest reptiles in South Africa

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Forest Thread Snake Leptotyphlops sylvicolus Pondo Flat-gecko Afroedura pondolia

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Aims and Objectives

 Are there cryptic lineages within the study taxa?  How are these lineages geographically distributed?  What is the degree of phylogeographic congruence between

these taxa?

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Materials and Methods

Genes Molecular analyses

mtDNA:
Cytb
ND4
nuDNA:
PRLR
RAG1
Maximum likelihood – Garli
Bayesian inference – MrBayes
Divergence time estimation –

BEAUti + BEAST

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Leptotyphlops sylvicolus

88 Samples 21 Localities

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Afroedura pondolia 99 Samples 23 Localities

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Way forward…

Haplotype networks
AMOVA
Clustering analysis on the nuDNA
Species delimitation
PCA on morphological data

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Acknowledgments

NRF-FBIP
Bursary and funding
Port Elizabeth Museum – Bayworld
Hosting and ethical clearance
KZN Wildlife and Eastern Cape Parks and T
urism
Permits