A population bottleneck is an event that drastically reduces the size of a population. The bottleneck may be caused by various events, such as an environmental disaster, the hunting of a species ...

Is this a success? The bottleneck effect may be a lingering threat for them. Thus, in the 1970s, biologists from the Frankfurt Zoological Society and elsewhere decided to try to reestablish a ...

The bottleneck effect is when a population has been almost wiped out possibly by a natural disaster. When the surviving population is very small it has lost lots of genetic information.