Early detection of population declines: High power of genetic monitoring using effective population size estimators

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-154

  Antao, Tiago ^a   Pérez Figueroa, Andrés ^b   Luikart, Gordon ^c,d  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Computational simulations; Effective population size; Endangered species; Habitat fragmentation; Population monitoring; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952710368     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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