Lessons from practitioners for designing and implementing effective amphibian captive breeding programmes

Lessons from Designing and Implementing GARF

GARF is an object oriented system aimed to support the design and the programming of reliable distributed applications on top of a network of workstations. The speciicity of GARF resides in its incremental programming model, and its extensible library of generic components. In this paper, we rst give an overview of GARF. Then we assess its features with respect to its programming model, its abs...

Role of inbreeding depression and purging in captive breeding and restoration programmes.

Inbreeding depression is a major force affecting the evolution and viability of small populations in captive breeding and restoration programmes. Populations that experience small sizes may be less susceptible to future inbreeding depression because they have been purged of deleterious recessive alleles. We review issues related to purging, as they apply to the management of small populations, ...

Captive Breeding of Birds

Captive Breeding and Gene Banks

Today, our planet is in a state of crisis and many of its natural resources have been destroyed by human activities. One of the principle aims of conservation biology is to promote concrete management programs to limit any further increase in the number of extinct and threatened species and ecosystems. Different approaches may be followed to maintain the world’s biodiversity: the in situ approa...

Amphibian Breeding and Climate Change

Climate changes may be influencing the breeding patterns of certain organisms. Effects on breeding activities could eventually lead to significant changes in population structure that may be reflected in population declines of species that are especially sensitive, such as some amphibians. Thus, climate changes may have affected the timing of breeding in some European amphibian species. To furt...