The dolphins sampled from the managed population are fed a consistent diet composed of a predominant mixture of commercially caught capelin, herring, mackerel, and squid and are supplemented with vitamins specially formulated for marine mammals.
Differences in mean values of Na, Ne, Ho, He and uHe among wild, cultivated and silvicultural managed populations were not statistically significant (P > 0.05).
The in situ managed populations were originally wild and they are composed of individuals that have been selectively spared after many cycles of forest clearance involved in the shifting cultivation of maize.
A large managed care population was used to examine the association between frequent gout flares and healthcare burden.
The generalizability of our findings to other managed care populations is unknown.
This was in response to concerns that the original thresholds were too low for managed populations that are being deliberately fished down to MSY (typically assumed to be 50% of virgin biomass under Schaeffer logistic population growth) (Reynolds et al., 2005).
Overall, this study suggests that the potential negative evolutionary consequences of repetitive supportive breeding on the managed population should be carefully considered before applying this management strategy as a long-term viable option.
For an actively managed population, there are essentially three temporal trends of interest, namely metrics remain unchanged, they decrease, or they increase over time.
[Footnote 2] There is little evidence that policy makers recognize that investment today could reduce cost and improve outcomes tomorrow or that we should reward novel therapies and system designs because we are working toward a comprehensive vision of healthcare in which managing population health is a component of building sustainable communities.
This background leads us to hypothesize that the high morphological variation observed in cultivated and managed populations would be accompanied by high genetic diversity, similar to that found in wild populations of this species.
