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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… systems. Congenital/ genetic: Disease that is inherited genetically or caused by loss in heterozygosity, e.g. … livestock living across the planet in a broad range of modified habitats. As human development and livestock have … in many infectious disease situations, as the causative organism may not be destroyed. Additionally the length of …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… atmosphere as part of natural variability. Simplified and modified diagram after Hartmann et al., (2013). Improved … abiotic variables like oxygen concentration (important to organism size and metabolism (Pörtner and Knust, 2007)), … may also become a factor, as many seagrass species are not genetically diverse within populations as a result of their …
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Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0

… tested, and whether the first choice Strategy needs to be modified or replaced. This process of assessment should be … Text modified with permission from NatureServe’s Ecosystem-based … found in different habitats or remote locations will be genetically more differentiated than those found in close …
21 Jun 2026 Literature

A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity

… (art. 8(i)) x x x x x x x x 4.4 Regulate/manage living modified organisms and share information (arts. 8(g) and …
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ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… (2) Importation or possession of noxious insects, pests or genetically modified organisms, etc. No person shall knowingly import … dangerous to animals or birds, or any genetically modified organism without the prior written consent of the …
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Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands

… caused outbreaks in Japan and the Republic of Korea were genetically different from those in other countries (the V … H5N2, H7N3, H13N9. Virulence Ability of an infectious organism to produce disease (similar to pathogenicity but … influenza pandemic if the current subtype of HPAI either genetically re-assorts or adaptively mutates into a form …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 1 Mammals

… A later 18-month detailed study by Ramirez (1984) slightly modified this conclusion since density of the pre-cropping … Evidence suggests that pangolins can adapt well to modified habitats provided their termite food source remains …
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Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 3 Birds

… (1981) related how much of the small range had been modified for agricultural use, particularly sorghum, and the … it does occur. Its habitats are not being extensively modified by man and it is not seriously persecuted. … THREATS TO SURVIYAL The species evidently occurs in modified and secondary habitats and is thus unlikely to be …
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Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates

… it is accorded full protection (Fuller et al . , 1987 modified by G. Hemeley In lltt. 1987). CalBian crocodllus …
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