Genetic data for C. thomasii will allow informed conservation decisions involving satellite population establishment, population augmentation, and prioritization of conservation efforts.
These models indicated that conservation management strategies aimed at ensuring the presence of adult females while concomitantly ameliorating survival at early life stages (population augmentation, translocations, introduction of artificial nest structures) are needed to stabilise the Indiana population of eastern hellbenders.
Foin et al. [58] predict that most (63%) endangered species will not reach recovery criteria through habitat protection alone, and that more active management such as habitat restoration and population augmentation will be needed.
Population augmentation is therefore sometimes used in conservation management to avoid inbreeding depression at low population size [ 71].
A central and often controversial issue for population augmentation or restoration is the choice of appropriate source material (e.g. Broadhurst et al. 2008).
Although L. multiflorum is considered a Portuguese crop wild relative (Magos-Brehm et al. 2008) and has an assessed conservation status of 'Least Concern' in the IUCN red list (IUCN 2013), information on its ecological preferences, essential for recovery plans, especially population restoration, population augmentation or population reintroduction is lacking.
While the compartmentalized changes in enteric microfloral population and augmentation of bacterial translocation (BT) have already been reported using experimental obstruction models, alterations in epithelial permeability of the obstructed guts has not been studied in detail.
Identification of immunologically important variation (e.g. associated with the major histocompatibility complex in animals) that provides resistance to disease epizootics in the wild could be used to inform selection of resistant or immune individuals for captive breeding, reintroductions and other forms of population genetic augmentation.
There are two predominant reasons why it is desirable to conduct genetic analysis in support of population reintroduction and augmentation work: To aid with the selection of founder population(s) and individuals from within these population(s) to be released.
Thus, relief of extreme hyperglycemia and therefore toxicity in our diabetic population may explain the augmentation of postprandial insulin secretion.
