Monitoring the effective population size of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) population using new single-sample approaches

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 862-875

  SkrbinŠek, Tomaž ^a   JelenČiČ, Maja ^a   Waits, Lisette ^b   Kos, Ivan ^a   Jerina, Klemen ^a   Trontelj, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

conservation genetics; effective population size; genetic monitoring; population dynamics; population genetics empirical; wildlife management

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEAR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SLOVENIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DENSITY; SLOVENIA; URSIDAE;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84856245652     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05423.x     Document Type: Article

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