Relationship between effective and demographic population size in continuously distributed populations.

ABSTRACT: Genetic monitoring of wild populations can offer insights into demographic and genetic information simultaneously. However, widespread application of genetic monitoring is hindered by large uncertainty in the estimation and interpretation of target metrics such as contemporary effective population size, N_e . We used four long-term genetic and demographic studies (≥9 years) to evaluate the temporal stability of the relationship between N_e and demographic population size (N_c ). These case studies focused on mammals that are continuously distributed, yet dispersal-limited within the spatial scale of the study. We estimated local, contemporary N_e with single-sample methods (LDNE, Heterozygosity

SUBMITTER: Pierson JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050178 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature