| Titre : | Animal Conservation 4 - AUG 2001 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
P. Ferreras, Auteur ;
P. Gaona, Auteur ;
F. Palomares, Auteur ;
M. Delibes, Auteur
Managers trying to preserve populations of endangered carnivores are often forced to choose between restoring habitat to allow larger breeding populations or reduce risks of mortality to increase survival rates. We modelled the viability of a me[...]
Article
A. C. Treydte, Auteur ;
J. B. Williams, Auteur ;
E. Bedin, Auteur ;
S. Ostrowski, Auteur ;
P. J. Seddon, Auteur ;
E. A. Marschall, Auteur ;
T. A. Waite, Auteur ;
K. Ismail, Auteur
Extirpated from the wild in 1972 by overhunting, Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) were re-introduced in Saudi Arabia in March 1990; 17 oryx were released into Mahazat as-Sayd, a 2244 km(2) fenced reserve in west-central Arabia, which lies at the per[...]
Article
A. M. Seymour, Auteur ;
M. E. Montgomery, Auteur ;
B. H. Costello, Auteur ;
S. Ihle, Auteur ;
G. Johnsson, Auteur ;
B. St John, Auteur ;
D. Taggart, Auteur ;
B. A. Houlden, Auteur
Koalas have undergone a series of sequential founding events on islands in south-eastern Australia in recent times, Populations in South Australia at the Eyre Peninsula and Mt Lofty Ranges were founded in the 1960s from a colony on Kangaroo Isla[...]
Article
S. Nyakaana, Auteur ;
E. L. Abe, Auteur ;
P. Arctander, Auteur ;
H. R. Siegismund, Auteur
Elephant social structure is matrilineal, with family units composed only of maternally related females and their juvenile offspring, while adult males are mostly solitary and seldom congregate into bachelor herds. In such a social structure, we[...]
Article
J. Gerlach, Auteur
The introduction of the carnivorous snail Euglandina rosea to Pacific islands by biological control programmes has had a devastating effect on native snail populations. In most areas the target species, Achatina fulica, has not been affected. al[...]
Article
L. L. Manne, Auteur ;
S. L. Pimm, Auteur
We tabulate three measures of rarity: local abundance, breeding range size and elevational extent for the passerine birds of the New World. We determine what fraction of species is threatened with extinction within the combinations of these thre[...]
Article
Conservation breeding for reintroductions: assessing survival in a captive flock of houbara bustards
Y. van Heezik, Auteur ;
S. Ostrowski, Auteur
Conservation breeding for reintroduction is becoming a popular option for restoring threatened populations. Whereas post-release results are widely reported in the conservation literature, little empirical information is presented on the captive[...]
Article
J. Aars, Auteur ;
X. Lambin, Auteur ;
R. Denny, Auteur ;
A. C. Griffin, Auteur
The invasion of Britain by American mink has had a catastrophic impact on water vote populations. We surveyed and live-trapped water votes over 2 years in eight c. 25 km(2) blocks in the upland of Scotland behind and ahead of the mink invasion f[...]
