Simple life-history traits explain key effective population size ratios across diverse taxa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Waples, Robin S ^a   Luikart, Gordon ^b   Faulkner, James R ^a   Tallmon, David A ^c  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult lifespan; Age at maturity; Age structure; Iteroparity; Life history; Overlapping generations

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; LIFE TABLE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85052488788     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1339     Document Type: Article

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