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Genetic erosion in an endangered desert fish during a megadrought despite long-term supportive breeding.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Feb 2024
Osborne Megan J, Archdeacon Thomas P, Yackulic Charles B, Dudley Robert K, Caeiro-Dias Guilherme, Turner Thomas F
Abstract excerpt
Human water use combined with a recent megadrought have reduced river and stream flow through the southwest United States and led to periodic drying of formerly perennial river segments. Reductions in snowmelt runoff and increased extent of drying collectively threaten short-lived, obligate aquatic species, including the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow (Hybognathus amarus). This species is subject to...
Topics
- Humans
- Animals
- Genetic Variation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Cyprinidae
- Rivers
- Breeding
