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Sex-biased inbreeding effects on reproductive success and home range size of the critically endangered black rhinoceros.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Apr 2014
Cain Bradley, Wandera Antony B, Shawcross Susan G, Edwin Harris W, Stevens-Wood Barry, Kemp Stephen J, Okita-Ouma Benson, Watts Phillip C
Abstract excerpt
A central premise of conservation biology is that small populations suffer reduced viability through loss of genetic diversity and inbreeding. However, there is little evidence that variation in inbreeding impacts individual reproductive success within remnant populations of threatened taxa, largely due to problems associated with obtaining comprehensive pedigree information to estimate inbreeding. In the...
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