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Directions in reintroduction biology

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008
Reintroductions are attempts to return species to parts of their historical ranges where they were extirpated, and might involve release of either captive-bred or wild-caught individuals. The poor success rate of reintroductions worldwide has led to frequent calls for greater monitoring, and since 1990 there has been an exponential increase in the ...
Doug P, Armstrong, Philip J, Seddon
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Verisimilitude: A Reintroduction

MLN, 2023
Abstract: In this article, I argue for giving renewed attention to the concept of verisimilitude, a term popular in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century criticism but which has since the nineteenth century become a mere synonym for realism in fiction and film.
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A Reintroduction to Mendelian Genetics

Cancer Investigation, 1997
The origin of modern genetics is often credited to Gregor Mendel (1865). The fact, if not the exact date, is as well known to every modern schoolchild as the Battle of Hastings. Mendel alone didn't get us to where we are today. Even our understanding of Mendelian inheritance is dependent on the contributions of those who discovered and defined genes ...
M. E. Hodes, Stephen R. Dlouhy
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Criteria for reintroductions

1994
The recent surge of interest in the use of reintroduction, especially of captive-bred animals, as a conservation tool, has resulted in two recent reviews of the subject (Jones, 1990; Gipps, 1991) and the formation of a Re-introduction Specialist Group (RSG) of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and a ...
D. G. Kleiman, M. R. Stanley Price, B. B. Beck   +2 more
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Julian's reintroduction of Milton's operation

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1992
Four years after the first successful open heart operation in 1953, most cardiac surgeons were using bilateral anterior thoracotomy. This tedious, time-consuming, complication-prone, painful procedure was abandoned only after Julian and associates demonstrated the marked superiority of median sternotomy.
M L, Dalton, S R, Connally, W C, Sealy
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Are Reintroductions Necessary?

Journal of Chiropractic Humanities, 2004
The Journal of Chiropractic Humanities was born in year 1991 and it is amazing how much can happen in just thirteen years. Originally named Philosophical Constructs for the Chiropractic Profession, this publication now bears the name Journal of Chiropractic Humanities.
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Reintroduction and Rewilding

2017
This chapter explains the practice of reintroduction and rewilding. It discusses the process of reintroduction, which can be achieved through restoration, translocation, and captive breeding based on species-focused, site-focused, or human-focused motivations. Moreover, the chapter looks at regulatory frameworks and policies for reintroduction, such as
Anne E. Goodenough, Adam G. Hart
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Reintroduction Biology

2012
Contributors vii Memorium of Don Merton xi Foreword xix Preface xxiii 1. Animal Translocations: What Are They and Why DoWe Do Them? 1 Philip J. Seddon, W. Maartin Strauss and John Innes 2. A Tale of Two Islands: The Rescue and Recovery of Endemic Birds in New Zealand and Mauritius 33 Carl G. Jones and Don V. Merton 3.
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Bear reintroduction: lessons and challenges. ,

Ursus, 2001
INVITED PAPER 13th International Conference on Bear Research and Management BEAR REINTRODUCTION: LESSONS AND CHALLENGES JOSEPH D. CLARK, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Southern Appalachian Field Laboratory, 274 Ellington Plant Sciences Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA, jclark1@utk.edu DJURO HUBER ...
Clark, D. Joseph, Huber, Đuro, Servheen, Christopher   +2 more
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