• Ex situ versus in situ Eurasian lynx populations: implications for successful breeding and genetic rescue 

      Krojerová‑Prokešová, Jarmila; Gajdárová, Barbora; Reiners, Tobias Erik; Bolechová, Petra; Kleven, Oddmund; Koubek, Petr; Nowak, Carsten; Ozoliņš, Jānis; Tám, Branislav; Voloshina, Inna; Vallo, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The main aim of ex situ programmes in conservation is to provide a suitable source of individuals for future reintroductions or reinforcement of existing populations. A fundamental prerequisite is creating and maintaining ...
    • Genetic characterization of free-ranging Asiatic wild ass in Central Asia as a basis for future conservation strategies 

      Kaczensky, Petra; Kovtun, Ekaterina; Habibrakhmanov, Rustam; Hemami, Mahmoud‑Reza; Khaleghi, Amirhossein; Linnell, John Durrus; Rustamov, Eldar; Sklyarenko, Sergey; Walzer, Chris; Zuther, Steffen; Kuehn, Ralph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Loss of genetic diversity due to drift and inbreeding reduces a population’s ability to respond to environmental change and may result in inbreeding depression. The Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus), regionally also known ...
    • Genome-wide diversity loss in reintroduced Eurasian lynx populations urges immediate conservation management 

      Mueller, Sarah Ashley; Prost, Stefan; Anders, Ole; Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine; Kleven, Oddmund; Klinga, Peter; Konec, Marjeta; Kopatz, Alexander; Krojerova-Prokesova, Jarmila; Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli; Obexer-Ruff, Gabriela; Reiners, Tobias Erik; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Sindicic, Magda; Skrbinsek, Tomaz; Tám, Branislav; Saveljev, Alexander P.; Naranbaatar, Galsandorj; Nowak, Carsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Reintroductions may produce populations that suffer from decreasing genetic diversity due to isolation, genetic drift and inbreeding if not assisted by careful management. To assess the genetic outcomes of reintroductions ...
    • Landscape relatedness: detecting contemporary fine-scalespatial structure in wild populations 

      Norman, Anita J.; Stronen, Astrid V.; Fuglstad, Geir-Arne; Ruiz-Gonzalez, Aritz; Kindberg, Jonas; Street, Nathaniel R.; Spong, Göran (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Context Methods for detecting contemporary, finescale population genetic structure in continuous populations are scarce. Yet such methods are vital for ecological and conservation studies, particularly under a changing ...
    • Long-term genetic monitoring of a reintroduced Eurasian lynx population does not indicate an ongoing loss of genetic diversity 

      Gajdárová, Barbora; Belotti, Elisa; Bufka, Luděk; Wölfl, Sybille; Mináriková, Tereza; Hollerbach, Laura; Dul'a, Martin; Kleven, Oddmund; Kutal, Miroslav; Nowak, Carsten; Ozoliņš, Jānis; Tám, Branislav; Bryja, Josef; Koubek, Petr; Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila; Volfová, Josefa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Where reintroduced wildlife populations are considered as vulnerable this is generally due to limited founder size and isolation. While many of these populations show low levels of genetic diversity, little is known ...