The millenium ark: How long a voyage, how many staterooms, how many passengers?
dc.contributor.author | Soulé, Michael | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gilpin, Michael | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Conway, William | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Foose, Tom | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T17:00:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T17:00:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1986 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | SoulÉ, Michael; Gilpin, Michael; Conway, William; Foose, Tom (1986)."The millenium ark: How long a voyage, how many staterooms, how many passengers?." Zoo Biology 5(2): 101-113. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38475> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0733-3188 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1098-2361 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38475 | |
dc.description.abstract | Barring holocausts, demographic forecasts suggest a “demographic winter” lasting 500–1,000 years and eliminating most habitat for wildlife in the tropics. About 2,000 species of large, terrestrial animals may have to be captively bred if they are to be saved from extinction by the mushrooming human population. Improvements in biotechnology may facilitate the task of protecting these species, but it probably will be decades at least before cryotechnology per se is a viable alternative to captive breeding for most species of endangered wildlife. We suggest that a principle goal of captive breeding be the maintenance of 90% of the genetic variation in the source (wild) population over a period of 200 years. Tables are provided that permit the estimation of the ultimate minimum size of the captive group, given knowledge of the exponential growth rate of the group, and the number of founders. In most cases, founder groups will have to be above 20 (effective) individuals. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cell & Developmental Biology | en_US |
dc.title | The millenium ark: How long a voyage, how many staterooms, how many passengers? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Biology, University of California, La Jolla | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | New York Zoological Society, Bronx | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Minnesota Zoological Gardens, Apple Valley | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38475/1/1430050205_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zoo.1430050205 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Zoo Biology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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