| Titre : | Animal Conservation 3 - FEB 2000 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
K. J. Wessels, Auteur ;
B. Reyers, Auteur ;
A. S. Van Jaarsveld, Auteur
Anthropogenic natural habitat transformation presents the single most important threat to global biodiversity. Land cover data, based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, were used to derive land use information for the Gauteng, Mpumalanga a[...]
Article
K. Ralls, Auteur ;
J. D. Ballou, Auteur ;
B. A. Rideout, Auteur ;
R. Frankham, Auteur
Five out of 169 fertile California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) eggs laid in captivity have exhibited chondrodystrophy, a lethal form of dwarfism. Pedigree records indicate that this chondrodystrophy, like similar conditions in chickens, tur[...]
Article
T. C. Marshall, Auteur ;
J. A. Spalton, Auteur
In most species the offspring of closely related parents have reduced fitness compared with the offspring of unrelated parents, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. However if parents are very distantly related, their offspring may also [...]
Article
J. Roman, Auteur ;
B. W. Bowen, Auteur
Much of the demand for turtle meat in North America and Europe during the past four centuries has been met using green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and other marine turtles. As stocks of marine turtles dwindled, harvest of the alligator snapping turt[...]
Article
R. F. Oliveira, Auteur ;
J. L. Machado, Auteur ;
J. M. Jordao, Auteur ;
F. L. Burford, Auteur ;
C. Latruffe, Auteur ;
P. K. McGregor, Auteur
Male fiddler crabs have one of their feeding claws greatly enlarged, which may comprise up to 40% of their weight. In southern Portugal (Ria Formosa) the major claw of the fiddler crab Uca tangeri is a local delicacy. Fishermen break off the mal[...]
