Contribution of Inbreeding to Extinction Risk in Threatened Species
Wild populations face threats both from deterministic factors, e.g., habitat loss, overexploitation, pollution, and introduced species, and from stochastic events of a demographic, genetic, and environmental nature, including catastrophes. Inbreeding reduces reproductive fitness in naturally outbree...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2002-06-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss1/art16/ |