Translating Effects of Inbreeding Depression on Component Vital Rates to Overall Population Growth in Endangered Bighorn Sheep

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1240-1249

  Johnson, Heather E ^a   Mills, L Scott ^a   Wehausen, John D ^b   Stephenson, Thomas R ^c   Luikart, Gordon ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crecimiento poblacional; Endangered species; Especies en peligro; Fecundidad; Fecundity; Ovis canadensis sierrae; Population growth; Recovery; Recuperaci n; Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; SHEEP; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBSPECIES; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEVADA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 80955166506     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01739.x     Document Type: Article

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