Inbreeding and endangered species management: Is New Zealand out of step with the rest of the world?

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-47

  Jamieson, Ian G ^a   Wallis, Graham P ^a   Briskie, James V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black Robin; Genetic purging; Kakapo; Takahe

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; ISOLATED POPULATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC LOAD; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PETROICA TRAVERSI; PORPHYRIO MANTELLI; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS;

EID: 33645065869     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00282.x     Document Type: Review

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