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Creator:: Obley, Miriam
Abstract:: Since the decline of salmonid populations in the Pacific Northwest, supplementation programs have become frequently implemented by hatcheries as a way to protect and conserve wild stock. However, hatchery-reared fish have lower fitness than wild fish which is likely due to adaptation to the hatchery environment, i.e., domestication selection. Fish...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis. Island Press. Sundström, L. Fredrik, Erik

Creator:: Harjoe, Carmen C.
Abstract:: Earth is experiencing unprecedented biodiversity loss. Amphibians are at the forefront of this biodiversity loss, with species declines estimated to be more severe than those of birds and mammals. Amphibian population declines and extinctions are driven by a number of factors including climate change, habitat destruction, contaminants and disease but...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: northernmost part of the pathogen’s range. References Ariel, E., J. Kielgast, H. Erik Svart, K. Larsen, H

Creator:: Glidden, Caroline K.
Abstract:: The last century has experienced a marked increase in emerging infectious disease (EID, hereafter) – jeopardizing human, domestic animal, and wildlife health. EIDs are commonly associated with spillover from one host species into a novel host species, with many destructive diseases, for both livestock and wildlife, emerging at the wildlife-livestock...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Beechler , Peter Erik Buss, Bryan Charleston , Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist, Francois Frederick Maree

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