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Human decimation caused bottleneck effect, genetic drift, and inbreeding in the Canarian houbara bustard
2023-02-01
Abstract excerpt
An endangered subspecies of the African houbara bustard, the Canarian houbara (Chlamydotis undulata fuertaventurae), is endemic to the Canary Islands off southern Morocco (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and La Graciosa islands). This population decreased over the last centuries because of hunting and egg collection, and was close to extinction in Lanzarote around the middle of last century. Later, the species recovered...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f3a9067f-00ee-5acf-af85-19c9d1ad9561
- DOI
- 10.1002/jwmg.22342
