This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how captive
breeding and management of wild and domestic animals have affected their behaviour and …

Exposure to environmental chemicals can have negative consequences for wildlife and
even cause localized population extinctions. Resistance to chemical stress, however, can …

The role of inbreeding depression in the extinction of wild populations is controversial,
largely because there are no quantitative estimates of its impact using realistic levels of …

Wild populations face threats both from deterministic factors, eg, habitat loss,
overexploitation, pollution, and introduced species, and from stochastic events of a …

The purging of deleterious alleles has been hypothesized to mitigate inbreeding depression,
but its effectiveness in endangered species remains debatable. To understand how …

Conservation genetics studies of populations bottlenecks are commonly framed under the
detrimental paradigm of inbreeding depression. This conceptual paradigm presupposes a …

Using computer simulations, we evaluate the effects of genetic purging of inbreeding load in
small populations, assuming genetic models of deleterious mutations which account for the …

Propagule pressure is considered the main determinant of success of biological invasions:
when a large number of individuals are introduced into an area, the species is more likely to …

We use regression models to investigate the effects of inbreeding in 119 zoo populations,
encompassing 88 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Meta-analyses show …

Inbreeding depression is a major force affecting the evolution and viability of small
populations in captive breeding and restoration programmes. Populations that experience …