Sampling strategies for estimating brook trout effective population size

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 625-637

  Whiteley, Andrew R ^a   Coombs, Jason A ^a   Hudy, Mark ^b   Robinson, Zachary ^b   Nislow, Keith H ^a   Letcher, Benjamin H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Effective number of breeders; Effective population size; Genetic monitoring; Headwater streams; LDNe; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC MARKER; HEADWATER; SALMONID; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84860425037     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0313-y     Document Type: Article

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