Effective size of harvested ungulate populations

Animal Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 488-495

  Saether B ^a   Engen, S ^a   Solberg, E J ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age structured population models; Demographic stochasticity; Effective population size; Genetic drift; Harvest strategies; Moose

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIOMASS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HARVESTING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STOCHASTICITY; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 70349591617     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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