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Ex Situ Management for Conservation

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Ex situ: conditions under which individuals or their progeny are spatially restricted with respect to their natural spatial patterns, are removed from many of their natural ecological processes, and are managed on some level by humans; i.e., individuals are maintained in artificial conditions under different selection pressures than those in natural conditions in natural habitat.

In situ: conditions that are considered to be natural for a species, in which individuals occupy natural habitat and perform natural ecological functions.

Meta-population: spatially distributed group of partially isolated population fragments of the same species that may interact naturally or through human intervention.

Stochastic: randomly determined; having variable outcomes described by a probability distribution but may not be predicted precisely.

Introduction

For some species, effective ex situ management is all that has stood between them and extinction. The Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) in...

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  1. IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG), Apple Valley, MN, USA

    Kathy Traylor-Holzer & Onnie Byers

  2. IUCN SSC CPSG-Europe, European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, Copenhagen Zoo, Merksem, Belgium

    Kristin Leus

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Traylor-Holzer, K., Leus, K., Byers, O. (2019). Ex Situ Management for Conservation. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_102-1

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