Equids--zebras, Asses, and Horses: Status Survey and Conservation Action PlanPatricia Des Roses Moehlman, IUCN/SSC Equid Specialist Group IUCN, 2002 - 190 pagina's The new Equid Action Plan provides current knowledge on the biology, ecology and conservation status of wild zebras, asses, and horses. It specifies what information is lacking, and prioritizes needed conservation actions. The Action Plan also provides chapters on equid taxonomy, genetics, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. These chapters highlight unsolved issues of taxonomy and genetics. They also provide information and insight into the special demographic and genetic challenges of managing small populations. The chapter on disease provides a review of documented equine disease and epidemiology and focuses on priorities for equid conservation health. The final chapter deals with the importance of developing an assessment methodology that explicitly considers the role of equids in ecosystems and the ecological processes that are necessary for ecosystem viability. The approach of combining ecological field studies and ecosystem modeling should prove useful for the scientific management and conservation of wild equids worldwide. These chapters provide research and conservation practitioners with new information and paradigms. |
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Status and Action Plan for | 6 |
Status and Action Plan for Grévys Zebra | 61 |
PETER NOVELLIE MALAN LINDEQUE PAULINE LINDEQUE | 72 |
Przewalskis Horse Equus ferus przewalski | 82 |
The Dynamics of Equid Populations | 118 |
PART 3 | 143 |
E ANN OAKENFULL AND OLIVER A RYDER | 156 |
CHERYL S | 179 |
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Action Plan African wild ass animals antiquorum Asiatic wild ass Bacterial Fungal Protozoal behaviour boehmi breeding Cape mountain zebra captive population conditions Disease transmission Country and specific criteria decline diseases or conditions domestic livestock ecology ecosystem equids Equine Equus africanus Equus burchellii Equus grevyi Equus hemionus Equus zebra Eritrea estimated Ethiopia extinction females foals forage genetic Gichuki Ginsberg Grévy's zebra habitat Hartmann's mountain zebras historic range increased IUCN Red List IUCN/SSC Kenya khur kiang Klingel kulan males mammals Moehlman Mongolia MZNP Namibia Nature Reserve numbers onager plains zebra protected areas Protozoal Other diseases Przewalski's horse quagga Rann of Kutch region reintroduction Reported Diseases/Conditions reproductive Rubenstein Shah Somalia South Africa southern Specialist Group species specific location status stripes Study period/Date reported subspecies taxon threat translocation transmission and vector Transmission Viral Bacterial ungulates vector reported Vectors and Transmission water sources wild equids zebra Equus zebra populations