Summary: Wildlife Conservation Genetics

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  • Due to what do endagered species decline?

    - Habitat loss
    - Overexploitation
    - Introduced species
    - Pollution
    -> At small populations sizes additionally random factors (demographic, environmental, genetic and catastrophic) increases their risk of extinction
  • When is biodiversity maintained?

    When extinctions are balanced by the origin of new species (speciation)
  • What are the four justifications for maintaining biodiversity?

    - Economic value of bio resources
    - Ecosystem services
    - Aesthetic value
    - The rights of living organisms to exist (ethical)
  • What are economic values of resources?

    All of our food, drugs, natural fiber, rubber, timber etc.
  • What is meant by the rights of living organisms to exist?

    Our species does not have the right to drive others to extinctions
  • Where are the majority of extinctions?

    On islands
  • What is threatened and what are the levels?

    High risk of extinction within a short time frame
    - Critically endangered
    - Endangered
    - Vulnerable
    - Lower risk
  • What happens when you list a species as endangered?

    - This provides scientific foundation for national and international legal protection
    - may lead to remedial actions for recovery
  • What are two causes of extinction?

    Human-associated factors
    • Habitat loss, introduced psecies, over-exploitation and pollution
    Stochastic factors
    • Additional accidental environmental catastrophic, demographic and genetic factors increase the risk of extincion in small populations  
  • What is enviromental stochasticity?

    Random unpredicatble variation in environmental factors, such as rainfall and food supply
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