Hunting Effects on Favourable Conservation Status of Highly Inbred Swedish Wolves

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 248-253

  Laikre, Linda ^a   Jansson, Mija ^a   Allendorf, Fred W ^b   Jakobsson, Sven ^a   Ryman, Nils ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Conservation genetics; Conservation policy; Convention on biological diversity; FCS; Genetic management; Habitats directive; Pedigree analysis

Indexed keywords

CANID; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUNTING; INBREEDING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; LEGAL ASPECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SWEDEN; WOLF;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; POPULATION DENSITY; SWEDEN; WOLVES;

FINLAND; KARELIA [(ADS) RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; KOLA PENINSULA; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 84875533935     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01965.x     Document Type: Article

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