Criteria to assess the degree of endangerment of livestock breeds in Europe

By G. Gandini, L. Ollivier, B. Danell, O. Distl, A. Georgoudis, Eildert Groeneveld, E. Martyniuk, J. Arendonk, J. A. Woolliams. 2004

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Utilisation and conservation of farm animal genetic resources. (2007, background): “Therefore the sustainable management is more concerned with maintaining the expected rate of loss of existing variation to a sustainable level, justified in more detail by Woolliams et al. (2002). Therefore what is required is a means of measuring or predicting the rate of loss.”
Molecular characterization of breeds and its use in conservation. (2009, background): “In the first, the risk status is deduced mainly from the degree of endangerment classifying the breed in the categories given by FAO or EAAP (Gandini et al., 2004).”
Genetic diversity in farm animals--a review. (2010, background): “Effective population size (Ne) is the preferred measure for the assessment of risk status (FAO 1992; Gandini et al. 2004); it is approximated on the basis of the size of both the female and the male breeding populations.”
Sheep resources of Ethiopia : genetic diversity and breeding strategy (2008, background): “Conservation aims of farm animal genetic resources range from avoiding extinction, maintaining genetic diversity and/or the cultural, ecological or socio-economic values of breeds, to provide the right conditions for their evolution within an evolving production system (Gandini et al., 2004).”