Lineage loss in Serengeti cheetahs: Consequences of high reproductive variance and heritability of fitness on effective population size

Conservation Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 137-147

  Kelly, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0035126203     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.99033.x     Document Type: Article

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