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Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation

Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ((TOBC,volume 17))

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This chapter provides an introduction to this book’s goal of exploring studbooks. The development of studbooks is reviewed, starting with the first studbooks for domestic species in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which became data sources for the early studies on inheritance. The history of studbooks on wild species started around the end of the nineteenth century and expanded considerably in the 1960s. The overview continues with the founding of regional zoo management programmes in the 1980s and the transition of studbooks from registers to electronic databases with demographic and genetic analyses. The concept of the “population management triangle” which reflects the interaction between husbandry, demographics and genetics is presented. The section on exploring studbooks, the title of this book, reviews the wealth of data on endangered animal species that is stored in studbooks and that can be used for wildlife management and conservation. An outline of the main topics of the book is provided. These include natural history, census, life tables, survival analysis, population projections, detection of inbreeding depression, quantitative genetics and the use of data from captivity in conservation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Renamed to World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) in 2000.

  2. 2.

    EEP is the abbreviation of the original name Europäisches Erhaltungszuchtprogramme.

  3. 3.

    Renamed to Species360 in July 2016.

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    A life table in studbook management refers to fecundity and mortality combined.

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Princée, F.P.G. (2016). Introduction. In: Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50032-4_1

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