| Titre : | Animal Conservation 8 - NOV 2005 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
S. S. Taylor, Auteur ;
I. G. Jamieson, Auteur ;
D. P. Armstrong, Auteur
Populations established with a small number of founders are thought to have a high risk of extinction due to Allee effects, demographic stoebasticity, inbreeding and reduced genetic variation. We tested whether the initial number of birds releas[...]
Article
B. L. Phillips, Auteur ;
R. Shine, Auteur
Successful invasive species often exhibit high phenotypic lability. Even when intuition suggests that their genetic diversity has been reduced by strong founder effects, many successful invasive species still exhibit adaptive change in response [...]
Article
F. W. Larsen, Auteur ;
C. Rahbek, Auteur
The higher-taxon approach may provide a pragmatic surrogate for the rapid identification of priority areas for conservation. To date, no continent-wide study has examined the use of higher-taxon data to identify complementarity-based networks of[...]
Article
T. N. C. Vidya, Auteur ;
P. Fernando, Auteur ;
D. J. Melnick, Auteur ;
R. Sukumar, Auteur
This study examines the population genetic structure of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) across India, which harbours over half the world's population of this endangered species. Mitochondrial DNA control region sequences and allele frequencies[...]
Article
M. S. L. Mills, Auteur ;
P. G. Ryan, Auteur
Long-line fishing mortality poses a significant threat to many large procellariiform seabirds. To date, estimates of impacts have concentrated on lower survival rates, largely ignoring the costs to fecundity resulting from disruption of breeding[...]
