Browsing Conservation Science Publications by Subject "UNITED STATES"

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Augmentation of the Puaiohi population through captive propagation and release on the Alakai Plateau, Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Switzer, Richard A.; Lieberman, Alan A.; Nelson, J.; Crampton, L.; Soorae, P.S. (IUCN Species Survival Commission, Re-introduction Specialist Group and Abu Dhabi, AE : Environment Agency-Abu DhabiGland, Switzerland, 2013)

The Puaiohi, also known as the small Kauai thrush, is listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN/BirdLife and Endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is one of only two remaining Hawaiian species in the genus Myadestes, formerly comprising six Hawaiian species....
Genetic population structure of Peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) indicates substantial gene flow across US–Mexico border

Buchalski, Michael R.; Navarro, Asako Y.; Boyce, Walter M.; Winston, Vickers T.; Tobler, Mathias W.; Nordstrom, Lisa A.; García, Jorge Alaníz; Gille, Daphne A.; Penedo, Maria Cecilia T.; Ryder, Oliver A.; et al. (2015)

…Within the United States (US), Peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni, PBS) are listed as federally endangered…. Patterns of genetic spatial structure indicate gene flow throughout the ranges is common, and construction of a US–Mexico border fence or wind energy infrastructure would disrupt connectivity of the metapopulation….