A fifth database is an index to the first four databases. Hit the links below to go to these individual databases or to an index to the databases. If you know of additional citations that fit the philosophy of the bibliography that is outlined below, you can submit them to B. Griffith for potential inclusion in revised editions of the bibliography. Please submit electronically in the format of the existing bibliographies. Introduction and reintroduction are two terms used to describe subsets of translocations.
Reintroductions release organisms within the historical range of the species.
The annotated bibliography is biased and focuses on maintenance or enhancement of native terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity. Thus we emphasize translocations which have the objective of population establishment, reestablishment, or maintenance within the native continent of the released species. In the face of escalating habitat alteration, habitat fragmentation, and increasing extinction rates, translocation is here to stay. It will be used to maintain community composition and bolster genetic heterogeneity in isolated habitat fragments that have high extinction rates and limited natural interchange with adjacent similar habitats. Translocation will also be used to establish satellite populations and reduce the risk of species loss due to catastrophic events, and to speed the recovery of species whose habitats have recovered or where limiting factors have been brought under control.