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Hunting effects on favourable conservation status of highly inbred Swedish wolves.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Apr 2013
Laikre Linda, Jansson Mija, Allendorf Fred W, Jakobsson Sven, Ryman Nils
Abstract excerpt
The wolf (Canis lupus) is classified as endangered in Sweden by the Swedish Species Information Centre, which is the official authority for threat classification. The present population, which was founded in the early 1980s, descends from 5 individuals. It is isolated and highly inbred, and on average individuals are more related than siblings. Hunts have been used by Swedish authorities during 2010 and 2011 to...
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