Achieving True Sustainability of Zoo Populations

Zoo Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-26

  Lacy, Robert C ^a  

^a BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated conservation; Intensive population management; Population management; Species conservation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; RESEARCH; STANDARD; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84873710548     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21029     Document Type: Note

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