Designatable Units for Status Assessment of Endangered Species

By D. Green. 2005

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Science, Policy, and Species at Risk in Canada (2010, background): “The criteria for status assessment are patterned after the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) scheme (Mace et al. 2008), and delineate legally defined “wildlife species” using the concept of a “designatable unit” (Green 2005).”
Ecological factors drive differentiation in wolves from British Columbia (2009, background): “This terminology is of particular relevance in the context of British Columbia wolves because it has been accepted by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (Green, 2005).”
The gap between the concept and definitions in the Evolutionarily Significant Unit: the need to integrate neutral genetic variation and adaptive variation (2007, background): “The ESU concept has been proved to satisfy this need and is applicable and detectable, although there has been much disapproval concerning the definitions (e.g., Pennock and Dimmick 1997; Bowen 1998; Waples 1998; Riddle and Hafner 1999; Paetkau 1999; Kelt and Brown 2000; Crandall et al. 2000; Goldst”