The relationship between abundance and genetic effective population size in elasmobranchs: an example from the globally threatened zebra shark Stegostoma fasciatum within its protected range

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1443-1454

  Dudgeon, C L ^a   Ovenden, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leopard shark; Linkage disequilibrium; Microsatellites; Ne Nc; Stegostoma fasciatum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; POPULATION SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; STEGOSTOMA FASCIATUM; STEGOSTOMATIDAE; TRIAKIS;

EID: 84945258069     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-015-0752-y     Document Type: Article

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