Events: 2017/03/14
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- 14 Mar 2017
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- 2:00 pm EDT
- 3:45 pm EDT
Immigrants to the rescue! How can immigration help to save threatened wildlife populations?
Category: Meeting
Threatened species have invariably small and frequently isolated populations, and are thus characterized by increased inbreeding and depleted genetic variation. Increased inbreeding could lead to a reduction in reproduction and survival (inbreeding depression), which causes an immediate...
