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Deteriorating Habitats and Conservation Strategies to Repopulate the Endangered Indus River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor); a Lesson Learned From the Conservation Practices of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The Indus River dolphin (IRD; Platanista gangetica minor) is an endangered and blind freshwater cetacean, endemic to the Indus River system of Pakistan and India.
Ghulam Nabi, Shahid Ahmad, Richard William McLaughlin, Yujiang Hao, Suliman Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Muhammad Shoaib Kiani, Yuefeng Wu, Dongming Li   +9 more
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Successful eradication of invasive American bullfrogs leads to coextirpation of emerging pathogens

Conservation Letters, 2023
Interventions of the host–pathogen dynamics provide strong tests of relationships, yet they are still rarely applied across multiple populations. After American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) invaded a wildlife refuge where federally threatened Chiricahua ...
Blake R. Hossack, David Hall, Catherine L. Crawford, Caren S. Goldberg, Erin Muths, Brent H. Sigafus, Thierry Chambert   +6 more
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An Optimized Environmental DNA Method to Improve Detectability of the Endangered Sichuan Taimen (Hucho bleekeri)

Fishes, 2023
Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques have emerged as a cost-effective and non-invasive strategy for monitoring the distribution of endangered aquatic species.
Jie Deng, Hongxing Zhang, Qijun Wang, Fei Kong, Hu Zhao, Lu Zhang, Wei Jiang   +6 more
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Red-Listed Ecosystem Status of Interior Wetbelt and Inland Temperate Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada

Land, 2021
The Interior Wetbelt (IWB) of British Columbia, which includes the globally rare Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR), contains primary forests poorly attributed and neglected in conservation planning.
Dominick A. DellaSala, James R. Strittholt, Rebecca Degagne, Brendan Mackey, Jeffery R. Werner, Michelle Connolly, Darwyn Coxson, Andrew Couturier, Heather Keith   +8 more
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Helicobacter cyclurae sp. Nov., Isolated From Endangered Blue Iguanas (Cyclura lewisi)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Blue iguanas (Cyclura lewisi) are endangered reptiles found only on Grand Cayman. Previously, DNA for a novel Helicobacter species GCBI1 was detected in sick and dead iguanas.
Nathan Chan, Zeli Shen, Anthony Mannion, Susanna Kurnick, Ioana S. Popescu, Frederic J. Burton, Paul P. Calle, James G. Fox   +7 more
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Endangered Plants in Novel Urban Ecosystems Are Filtered by Strategy Type and Dispersal Syndrome, Not by Spatial Dependence on Natural Remnants [PDF]

, 2020
Understanding the contribution of cities to nature conservation is gaining increasing importance with a globally accelerating urbanization and requires insights into the mechanisms that underlie urban distribution patterns. While a considerable number of
Kowarik, Ingo, Planchuelo, Greg, von der Lippe, Moritz   +2 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of endangered Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) and phylogenetic placement

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022
The Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) endemic to mountains of northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates, however, the species is faced with significant threats to its population.
Ahmed N. Al-Rawahi, Zahir S. Alalawi, Sajjad Asaf, Abdul Latif Khan, Adil Khan, Haitham Al-Rawahi, Steven Ross, Mansoor Al-Jahdhami, Ahmed Al-Harrasi   +8 more
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Gut Microbiome Profiling of the Endangered Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) after the 2019–2020 Australian Megafire

Animals, 2023
Studying the gut microbiome can provide valuable insights into animal health and inform the conservation management of threatened wildlife. Gut microbiota play important roles in regulating mammalian host physiology, including digestion, energy ...
Jordyn Clough, Sibylle Schwab, Katarina Mikac   +2 more
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In vitro plantlet regeneration study for in vitro conservation in Curculigo orchioides - an endangered medicinal plant

Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2016
In vitro studies on Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. (Hypoxidaceae) was undertaken to devise a protocol for in vitro conservation of this endangered species. Fresh underground tubers with shoot apices were used to initiate cultures.
P.E. Rajasekharan, S. Ganeshan and, Sunitha Bhaskaran   +2 more
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Skin Marks in Critically Endangered Taiwanese Humpback Dolphins (Sousa chinensis taiwanensis)

Animals, 2023
As long-lived apex predators, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) are key indicators of marine coastal environmental health. Skin marks can be observed on dorsal body surfaces that are visible during mark–recapture studies that rely on photo-
Yun Ho, Pei-Ying Wu, Lien-Siang Chou, Wei-Cheng Yang   +3 more
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