Response to Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Response to Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”

Published:2021-06-04 Issue:6546 Volume:372 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Scott Peter A.¹^ORCID,Allison Linda J.²^ORCID,Field Kimberleigh J.²^ORCID,Averill-Murray Roy C.²^ORCID,Shaffer H. Bradley³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX 79016, USA.

2. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Desert Tortoise Recovery Office, Reno, NV 89502, USA.

3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

4. La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Abstract

Hedrick brings up several potential concerns that he feels challenge or limit our main finding. Hedrick does not comment on our empirical results, but rather argues that several factors may confound or invalidate our conclusion. Many of these concerns focus on unknown ecological aspects of the translocated tortoises, but we believe there is no reason to conclude that they bias the results or interpretation as presented in our original paper.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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