How does the 50/500 rule apply to MVPs?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 578-584

  Jamieson, Ian G ^a   Allendorf, Fred W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LONG-TERM CHANGE;

ANIMAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84865864214     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.001     Document Type: Review

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