Digging the pupfish out of its hole: risk analyses to guide harvest of Devils Hole pupfish for captive breeding

The Devils Hole pupfish is restricted to one wild population in a single aquifer-fed thermal pool in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Since 1995 the pupfish has been in a nearly steady decline, where it was perched on the brink of extinction at 35–68 fish in 2013. A major strategy for co...

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Main Author: Steven R. Beissinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/549.pdf