Estimating the ratio of effective to actual size of an age-structured population from individual demographic data

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1148-1158

  Engen, S ^a   Lande, R ^a,b   Saether B E ^a   Gienapp, P ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Age structure; Demographic variance; Effective population size; Environmental variance; Genetic drift; Reproductive value; Stochastic population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC DRIFT; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEX RATIO; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX RATIO; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77954048892     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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