• An evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) is a population of organisms that is considered distinct for purposes of conservation. Delineating ESUs is important...
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  • Pacific salmon for listing under the Act, NMFS has relied on the evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) concept and previous developed a policy on the definition...
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    Species (redirect from Evolutionary species)
    (sets of chromosomes) and allozymes (enzyme variants). An evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) or "wildlife species" is a population of organisms considered...
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    currently 15 DPS for steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and 31 evolutionarily significant units (ESU) for five species of Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus. The...
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    Borneo elephants warrants their recognition as a separate evolutionarily significant unit. In general, Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants...
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    Retrieved 15 March 2022. Fleischer, Robert C. "Taxonomic and Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU) Status of Western Yellow-billed Cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus)"...
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    and Grays Harbor Counties. Southwest Washington Coho Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit (PDF), NOAA, January 2013 Southwest Regional Office, Washington...
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    as the differences in morphology and ecology, making it an evolutionarily significant unit. Hybridization and introgression between North Sea houting...
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    genetic study suggests koalas exist as a cline within a single evolutionarily significant unit with limited gene flow between local populations. In 2016,...
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    California. These Coho are part of the Central California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit (CCC ESU), and are listed as "endangered" at both the state...
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    potentially justifying assignment of these populations as an evolutionarily significant unit and sister clade to C. stellatus. The vertical distribution...
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  • Endemic Bird Area - Endemism - Environmental stewardship - Evolutionarily Significant Unit - Extinction - Extinction event - Ex-situ conservation - Extinct...
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  • Electrostatic units, a system of units Electrostatic unit, or statcoulomb, its unit of charge Evolutionarily significant unit Electrosurgical unit, used in...
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    Fisheries Service (NMFS) has identified seven populations, called Evolutionary Significant Units (ESUs), of coho salmon in Washington, Oregon and California...
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    California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit, " or CCC ESU, and are listed as "endangered" at both the state and federal level. Significant efforts to protect...
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    burchellanus is a rare species or, if it is a subspecies, an evolutionarily significant unit, of butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) that lives in a...
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    abundance estimates for the South-Central California Coast evolutionarily significant unit. Excludes estimates from CDFG (1965) presented in Table 17...
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    differentiated from other populations. Evolutionarily significant units (ESU): Evolutionarily significant units are populations that show enough genetic...
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    should actually be divided into multiple different lineages or evolutionarily significant units, and possibly even distinct species. Frost, Darrel R. (2022)...
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    access to upstream spawning habitat. In 1997, the southern Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU) of steelhead trout was added to the federal list of endangered...
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    California. These coho are part of the "Central California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit," or CCC ESU, and are listed as "endangered" at both the state...
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    population of Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon, an evolutionarily significant unit that is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act...
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  • species may refer to: A taxonomic species found in the wild Evolutionarily Significant Unit, a grouping used in conservation that may refer to species...
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    species of trout. Coho salmon in the watershed belong to an Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU) that was listed by the National Marine Fisheries Service...
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    in a single tributary of the Ameca River, A. goslinei is an evolutionarily significant unit.  Though this species was first discovered in 1987, pollution...
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  • Phylogeography (category Evolutionary biology)
    analyses have also played an important role in defining evolutionary significant units (ESU), a unit of conservation below the species level that is often...
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    the sympatric morphs in each lake should be considered ESUs, evolutionarily significant units. This taxonomic view is not widely accepted however, which...
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    Griffiths, Richard A.; Labisko, Jim (2019). "Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles' frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae)"...
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    previously recognized phenotypes. They recognized them as evolutionarily significant units and species. Their assigning of scientific names to species...
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    Vazquez Garcia-Vallejo, F (2002). "Molecular identification of evolutionarily significant units in the Amazon River dolphin Inia sp. (Cetacea: Iniidae)". Journal...
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