The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our ability to monitor populations or species that were once threatened or endangered and in the process of recovery is enhanced by using genetic methods to assess overall population stability and size over time. This can be accomplished most directly by obtaining genetic measures from temporally-spaced samples that reflect the overall stability of the population as given by changes in genetic diversity levels (allelic richness and heterozygosity), degree of population differentiation (F(ST) and D(EST)), and effective population size (N(e)). The primary goal of any recovery effort is to produce a long-term self-sustaining population, and these genetic measures provide a metric by which we can gauge our progress and help make important management decisions.

Methodology

SUBMITTER: Johnson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2987794 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature