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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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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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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Steelhead and salmon distinct population segments (section Pacific salmon evolutionarily significant unit)
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Fisheries Service (NMFS) has identified seven populations, called Evolutionary Significant Units (ESUs), of coho salmon in Washington, Oregon and California...
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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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abundance estimates for the South-Central California Coast evolutionarily significant unit. Excludes estimates from CDFG (1965) presented in Table 17...
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Molecular ecology (section Conservation units)
differentiated from other populations. Evolutionarily significant units (ESU): Evolutionarily significant units are populations that show enough genetic...
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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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Griffiths, Richard A.; Labisko, Jim (2019). "Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles' frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae)"...
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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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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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previously recognized phenotypes. They recognized them as evolutionarily significant units and species. Their assigning of scientific names to species...
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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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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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conserving particular species can be done through the use of evolutionary significant units, which essentially attempt to prioritise the conservation of...
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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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approaches, such as multicriteria species approaches, subspecies, evolutionarily significant units, distinct population segments or species-population continuum...
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British Columbia, they are considered secure. No pink salmon Evolutionary Significant Units are listed under the Endangered Species Act. The commercial...
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to deal with similar challenges in future. Evolutionary biologists have attempted to create evolutionary or phylogenetic trees encompassing as many organisms...
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