<i>Ex-situ</i> avian sex skews: determinants and implications for conservation.

ABSTRACT: With over half of all avian species in decline globally, zoo-based recovery programs are increasingly relied upon to save species from extinction. The success of such programs not only rests with political will, but also in our understanding of species' breeding biology and how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment. Sex skews, that is, an imbalance in the optimal number of males to females, is an underlying mechanism of population decline in some threatened species. Ex-situ (i.e., zoo-based) management practices will need to become more efficient to support the growing number of conservation reliant species and manage sex skews to amend, repair and restore population stability both in- and ex-situ. In this article, we analysed data

SUBMITTER: Hall CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12011015 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature