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Response to Lynch and Lande

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

R. Frankham
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
I. R. Franklin
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Animal Production, Blacktown, NSW 2148, Australia
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Abstract

Lynch & Lande's (1998) comments on our paper (Franklin & Frankham, 1998) misrepresent our purpose, deal largely with a different issue and do not refute our original criticism. Our paper is a commentary on Lande's (1995) suggestion that an effective size of 5000 is required to maintain evolutionary potential, not whether this size ‘is adequate for conservation purposes'.

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Brief Report
Copyright
© 1998 The Zoological Society of London

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