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| Lynch, C. | |
| Population biology: the science of population management for captivity, reintroduction, and conservation | |
| 2008 Wildlife Middle East (2): 2-2 | |
Captive populations, as well as wild population requiring conservation action, are typically small. As a result, biological and logicstical challenges to their successful management exist. Through the application of standardized methods for population management, potentially detrimental demographic and genetic effects can be mitigated, and optimal management strategies for captive populations can be devised. Examples of such strategies include those employed by the Species Survival Plan (SSP) of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the EEP of European Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The goals of these programs include rapid growth of founding populations to achieve demographically stable populations at program carrying capacities, creation of stable age structures, and limiting extinction risk. Whatever their role, captive populations must themselves be stable and secure, being managed for demographic and genetic health, to support these functions. Mean kinship management strategies are generally employed, though they may be customized to meet specific program needs. Monogamous, polygamous, and colonial breeders can all be accomodated. Using this strategy, populations can be managed to maintain at carrying capacity or to supply surplus individuals for reintroduction or for export to other managed programs. |
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