Effective Population Size Dynamics and the Demographic Collapse of Bornean Orang-Utans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Sharma, Reeta ^a   Arora, Natasha ^b   Goossens, Benoit ^c,d   Nater, Alexander ^b   Morf, Nadja ^b   Salmona, Jordi ^a   Bruford, Michael W ^c   van Schaik, Carel P ^b   Krützen, Michael ^b   Chikhi, Lounès ^a,e,f  

^a Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência ^*  (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BORNEO; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PONGO PYGMAEUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84869234346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049429     Document Type: Article

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