Splitting or Lumping? A Conservation Dilemma Exemplified by the Critically Endangered Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama)

Helen Senn; Lisa Banfield; Tim Wacher; John Newby; Thomas Rabeil; Jennifer Kaden; Andrew C. Kitchener; Teresa Abaigar; Teresa Luísa Silva; Mike Maunder; Rob Ogden

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098693

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Splitting or Lumping? A Conservation Dilemma Exemplified by the Critically Endangered Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama)

Helen Senn ,

* E-mail: hsenn@rzss.org.uk

Affiliation WildGenes Laboratory, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Lisa Banfield,

Affiliation Conservation Department, Al Ain Zoo, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Tim Wacher,

Affiliation Conservation Programmes, Zoologicial Society of London, Regents Park, London, United Kingdom
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John Newby,

Affiliation Sahara Conservation Fund, L'Isle, Switzerland
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Thomas Rabeil,

Affiliation Sahara Conservation Fund, Niamey, Niger
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Jennifer Kaden,

Affiliation WildGenes Laboratory, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Andrew C. Kitchener,

Affiliations Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Teresa Abaigar,

Affiliation Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Almería, Spain
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Teresa Luísa Silva,

Affiliations CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigção em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Almería, Spain, Departamento de Biologia da, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Mike Maunder,

Affiliation College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Rob Ogden

Affiliation WildGenes Laboratory, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Splitting or Lumping? A Conservation Dilemma Exemplified by the Critically Endangered Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama)

Helen Senn,
Lisa Banfield,
Tim Wacher,
John Newby,
Thomas Rabeil,
Jennifer Kaden,
Andrew C. Kitchener,
Teresa Abaigar,
Teresa Luísa Silva,
Mike Maunder

Published: June 23, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098693

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Corrigendum 19_07_2014

Posted by HSenn on 16 Jul 2014 at 15:42 GMT

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“We highlight here again however that considerable variation within the subspecies has been recoded recently [12] [21] and that
[20] observed phenotypic variation, claiming to have seen representatives of all three subspecies phenotypes within Eastern Chad.”

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“We highlight here again however that considerable variation within the subspecies has been recorded recently [12] [21] and that Malbrant (1952) [20] observed phenotypic variation, claiming to have seen representatives of all three subspecies’ phenotypes within Eastern Chad.”

Competing interests declared: I am the author

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Corrigendum 19_07_2014

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