Using pedigree reconstruction to estimate population size: Genotypes are more than individually unique marks

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1294-1304

  Creel, Scott ^a,b   Rosenblatt, Elias ^a,b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Zambian Carnivore Programme   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Census; Lion; Mark recapture; Pedigree reconstruction; Population estimate; Population size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886294488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.538     Document Type: Article

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