Genetic monitoring as a promising tool for conservation and management

MK Schwartz, G Luikart, RS Waples - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional,
national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring …

Guidelines for propagation and translocation for freshwater fish conservation

AL George, BR Kuhajda, JD Williams, MA Cantrell… - Fisheries, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Reestablishment of locally extinct populations and augmentation of declining populations
are management activities used with increasing frequency in the conservation of imperiled …

Strategies for ecological restoration of the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico and recovery of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow

DE Cowley - Reviews in Fisheries Science, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Issues relevant to management of arid land aquatic ecosystems include:(1) a poor
understanding of the extent and linkages of an aquatic ecosystem,(2) human population …

The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: a synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities

TA Worthington, AA Echelle, JS Perkin… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic changes to the Great Plains rivers of North America have had a large,
negative effect on a reproductive guild of pelagic‐broadcast spawning (PBS) cyprinid fishes …

Transitioning from microsatellites to SNP‐based microhaplotypes in genetic monitoring programmes: Lessons from paired data spanning 20 years

MJ Osborne, G Caeiro‐Dias, TF Turner - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many long‐term genetic monitoring programmes began before next‐generation sequencing
became widely available. Older programmes can now transition to new marker systems …

Genetic effects of long-term stock enhancement programs

S Kitada, H Shishidou, T Sugaya, T Kitakado… - Aquaculture, 2009 - Elsevier
Since the 1980s, there has been growing concern about the deleterious genetic effects of
hatchery fish on wild populations. The general awareness of the loss of genetic variation in …

Evaluating the performance of captive breeding techniques for conservation hatcheries: a case study of the delta smelt captive breeding program

KM Fisch, JA Ivy, RS Burton, B May - Journal of heredity, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The delta smelt, an endangered fish species endemic to the San Francisco Bay-Delta,
California, United States, was recently brought into captivity for species preservation. This …

Backcasting the decline of a vulnerable Great Plains reproductive ecotype: identifying threats and conservation priorities

TA Worthington, SK Brewer… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation efforts for threatened or endangered species are challenging because the
multi‐scale factors that relate to their decline or inhibit their recovery are often unknown. To …

Fragmentation and drought legacy correlate with distribution of burrhead chub in subtropical streams of North America

JS Perkin, ZR Shattuck, JE Gerken… - Transactions of the …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Burrhead Chub Macrhybopsis marconis is a species of special concern endemic to
subtropical streams in south Texas. We documented life history attributes and historical …

Rangewide survey of the introgressive status of Guadalupe Bass: implications for conservation and management

PT Bean, DJ Lutz-Carrillo… - Transactions of the …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The stocking of fishes outside of their native range for the purpose of sport fisheries can lead
to secondary contact and introgression between species that were historically allopatrically …