What the Inbred Scandinavian Wolf Population Tells Us about the Nature of Conservation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Räikkönen, Jannikke ^a   Vucetich, John A ^b   Vucetich, Leah M ^b   Peterson, Rolf O ^b   Nelson, Michael P ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DETERIORATION; IMMIGRANT; INBRED STRAIN; INBREEDING; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SCANDINAVIA; SCANDINAVIAN WOLF; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; WOLF; ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES; WOLVES;

EID: 84879256942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067218     Document Type: Article

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