Overview
- Provides a fully updated snapshot of state of the art species-specific reproductive technologies, now with 6 new chapters
- Sets reproductive problems in context and emphasizes the links between animal-based problems and the wider world, e.g. reproductive fitness and how it is being affected by environmental changes
- Presents realistic assessments of how effective some of the more recently developed techniques in reproductive technology might be at combating extinctions
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1200)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Survival and Adaptation of Species in a Changing Environment
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Progress in Understanding, Assisting, or Suppressing Reproduction in Wild Species
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About this book
Understanding reproductive biology is centrally important to the way many of the world’s conservation problems should be tackled. Currently the extinction problem is huge, with up to 30% of the world’s fauna being expected to disappear in the next 50 years. Nevertheless, it has been estimated that the global population of animals in zoos encompasses 12,000 – 15,000 species, and we anticipate that every effort will be made to preserve these species for as long as possible, minimizing inbreeding effects and providing the best welfare standards available. Even if the reproductive biology community cannot solve the global biodiversity crisis for all wild species, we should do our best to maintain important captive populations.
Reproductive biology in this context is much more than the development of techniques for helping with too little or too much breeding. While some of the relevant techniques are useful for individual species that society might target for a variety of reasons, whether nationalistic, cultural or practical, technical developments have to be backed up by thorough biological understanding of the background behind the problems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reproductive Sciences in Animal Conservation
Editors: Pierre Comizzoli, Janine L. Brown, William V. Holt
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23633-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23632-8Published: 11 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23635-9Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23633-5Published: 30 August 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: VIII, 559
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Medicine