INCREASED EGG CONSERVATION-IS IT ESSENTIAL FOR RECOVERY OF WHOOPING CRANES IN THE ARANSASIWOOD BUFFALO POPULATION?

• Main Author: LEWIS, JAMES C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2001
• Subjects: conservation; Grus americana; management; whooping crane; Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ornithology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/80; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1076/viewcontent/Lewis___Increased_Egg.pdf

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is in a race for survival against adversities (genetic, demographic, and environmental) that are only partially understood. There is increasing evidence of genetic problems (drift, inbreeding, and loss of heterozygosity) in the captive population that likely also...