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evolutionarily significant unit [‚ev·ə‚lü·shə¦ner·ə·lē sig¦nif·i·kənt ′yü·nət]

(ecology)

A distinct local population within a species that has very different behavioral and phenological traits and thus harbors enough genetic uniqueness to warrant its own management and conservation agenda. Abbreviated ESU.

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No references found			Waples, Evolutionarily Significant Units and the Conservation of Biological Diversity under the Endangered Species Act, in EVOLUTION AND THE AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM: DEFINING UNIQUE UNITS IN POPULATION CONSERVATION 8 (Jennifer L. Science, law, and the environment: the making of a modern discipline by Brosnan, Deborah M. / Environmental Law From these status assessments, NOAA Fisheries scientists identified 52 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs), the smallest population unit that can receive federal protection under the ESA. Pacific salmon recovery planning and the Salmonid Watershed Analysis ... by Steel, E. Ashley; Johnston, Laura; Feist, Blake E.; Pess, George R.; Jensen, David; Bilby, Robert E. / Endangered Species Update Federal law dictates that all or none of the fish in what's known as an evolutionarily significant unit should be listed, Hogan concluded. Coho still hanging in the balance by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)			evil and rude evil eye Evilmerodach Evjen method evjite Evlakh Evlampii Aleksandrovich Dunaev Evlampii Dunaev Evlashevo Evliya Celebi Evliya Çelebi Evnevich, Ippolit Evnevich, Ippolit Antonovich Evno Azef Evno Fishelevich Azef evocation evoked potential evolute Evolute and Involute Evolution evolution pressure evolution strategy Evolution, Biological Evolution, Doctrine of Evolution, Rate of evolutionarily significant unit evolutionary algorithm evolutionary computation evolutionary distance evolutionary divergence evolutionary force Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology, Institute of evolutionary operation Evolutionary Physiology Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Institute of evolutionary plasticity evolutionary programming evolutionary progress evolutionary rate evolutionary strategy evolutionary tree evolutionary trend Evolutionist School evolved gas analysis evolvon evolware Évora Evoron Evorsion evorsion hollow Evpatii Kolovrat			Evolution strategy Evolution Synthesis Evolution to 3G Evolution to 3G Evolution to Knowledge Evolution Youth Organization, Inc. Evolution, Biological Evolution, Doctrine of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Evolution, History and Scientific Foundation of Evolution, History and Scientific Foundation of Evolution, History and Scientific Foundation of Evolution, History and Scientific Foundation of Evolution, Rate of Evolution-Data Only Evolution@Home evolutional evolutional evolutional evolutional evolutionally evolutionally evolutionally evolutionally evolutionarily evolutionarily evolutionarily evolutionarily Evolutionarily Conserved Signaling Intermediate in Toll Pathway Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered evolutionarily significant unit evolutionarily stable optimal harvesting strategy evolutionary evolutionary evolutionary evolutionary Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Evolutionary Acquisition Evolutionary Acquisition for Space Efficiency Evolutionary Acquisition of Neural Topologies Evolutionary Acquisition Phase Evolutionary algorithm Evolutionary algorithm Evolutionary Algorithm Modelling Language Evolutionary algorithms Evolutionary Algorithms for Computer Vision Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics Evolutionary and Emergent Behaviour Intelligence and Computation Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit Evolutionary Approach to Electromagnetics Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network Evolutionary biology Evolutionary Capability for HQ Operations Evolutionary Change in Organizational Populations Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Evolutionary Command/Control Operations

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