Estimation of census and effective population sizes: The increasing usefulness of DNA-based approaches

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 355-373

  Luikart, Gordon ^a,b,c   Ryman, Nils ^d   Tallmon, David A ^e   Schwartz, Michael K ^f   Allendorf, Fred W ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^f ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bottleneck; Habitat fragmentation; Ne NC ratio; Noninvasive sampling; Population size estimation; Remote genetic monitoring

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77952093315     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0050-7     Document Type: Review

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