Conservation and ecology of the Anastasia Island beach mice
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The Anastacia Island beach mouse (AIBM) is a nocturnal rodent found only in a 14 kilometer barrier island in Florida. In 1989, the AIBM was listed by the state and the US Fish and Wildlife Service as an endangered species, its numbers having been reduced through habitat degradation, natural calamities and predation by domestic cats.A study in the rodent's population ecology revealed that the mouse's populationis highly variable. Densities between 2 and 90 mice per hectare were observed in high quality habitat, while densities around half of these values were obtained in degraded habitat. To assure its long-term survival, a population isbeing established at Guana River State Park.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1992
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Mexican spotted owl draft recovery plan
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The Forest Service will administer a recovery plan for the Mexican spotted owl based on a draft recovery plan released, on March 27, 1995, that contained the necessary steps to secure this threatened subspecies. Fish and Wildlife Service members will work with the Forest Service to provide an adequate habitat in restricted, protected and unrestricted Southwestern areas. The draft recovery plan was prepared by government and private silviculturalists, wildlife biologists, and forest and landscape ecologists from the US and Mexico.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1995
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Beach Mouse Summit
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Biologists from Fish and Wildlife Service offices in four locations gathered for the first 'Beach Mouse Summit' to discuss the status and strategies for recovery and conservation of the threatened Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast subspecies of the oldfield mouse. The summit identified the causes of the subspecies' decline and the problems that may reduce the success of reintroduction of the mouse populations to protected areas.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1995
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