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Nearly unbiased estimator of contemporary Ne/N based on kinship relationships

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
This study develops a nearly unbiased estimator of the ratio of the contemporary effective mother size to the census size in a population, as a proxy of the ratio of contemporary effective size (or effective breeding size) to census size (Ne/N or Nb/N ...
Tetsuya Akita
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Using spatial genetics to quantify mosquito dispersal for control programs

BMC Biology, 2020
Background Hundreds of millions of people get a mosquito-borne disease every year and nearly one million die. Transmission of these infections is primarily tackled through the control of mosquito vectors. The accurate quantification of mosquito dispersal
Igor Filipović, Hapuarachchige Chanditha Hapuarachchi, Wei-Ping Tien, Muhammad Aliff Bin Abdul Razak, Caleb Lee, Cheong Huat Tan, Gregor J. Devine, Gordana Rašić   +7 more
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State of the Art Review of Genomics of Close-Kin Mark–Recapture (CKMR)

, 2022
37 pagesKnowing the number of individuals in a population is fundamental for the sustainable management of exploited marine resources but estimating this parameter is often extremely challenging, especially in large, highly mobile and dispersed ...
Casas Castaño, Laura
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Individual movement modeling expands the power of migratory species observations: North Atlantic right whale case study

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding a population's distribution depends on observing the presence and movement of individuals throughout their range. For highly mobile marine species, these observations typically rely on high effort monitoring programs. Tracking enough individuals to understand trends in movement behavior is not always logistically feasible, and ...
Abigail M. Kreuser, Daniel E. Pendleton, Nicholas R. Record, Erin L. Meyer‐Gutbrod   +3 more
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Estimating effective population size using close‐kin mark–recapture

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Close‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) is a method that allows estimating population census size, among other parameters, through the observed number of pairs that are close‐kin including parent–offspring pairs (POPs) and half‐sibling pairs (HSPs).
Jonathan Babyn, Daniel Ruzzante, Mark Bravington, Joanna Mills Flemming   +3 more
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Habitat fragmentation and amount drive within‐species variation in dispersal kernels and limit transferability across landscapes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Dispersal is a key ecological trait that ensures connectivity, gene flow, and range dynamics, yet empirical information about how dispersal distances vary within species remains scarce. Many studies, investigating for instance connectivity conservation, use typical species‐specific dispersal kernels without accounting for the fact that these kernels ...
Jette Wolff, Guillermo Fandos, Cécile H. Albert, Greta Bocedi, Justin M. J. Travis, Damaris Zurell   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Close-Kin Mark-Recapture Models [PDF]

, 2019
Close-Kin Mark-Recapture (CKMR) is a recent extension of the ordinary mark–recapture methods used to estimate animal abundance and other population parameters. Where ordinary mark–recapture only consider the subsequent identification of the same animal a
Førland, Brage
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Beyond abundance: the impact of sampling design on effective population size estimates in capercaillie

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Effective population size (Ne) is a useful parameter to evaluate the long‐term viability of populations. While obtaining enough field data from wild populations to estimate Ne directly is challenging, molecular techniques applied to non‐invasive samples provide an appealing alternative.
María‐José Bañuelos, Mario Quevedo
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study tests whether early‐life maternal association buffers offspring from the effects of prenatal stress in a facultatively social lizard. Despite clear effects of maternal glucocorticoids on growth and social behaviour, social associations did not mitigate these effects, revealing limits to social buffering in this species.
Kirsty J. MacLeod, Alix Bouffet‐Halle, Erik Wapstra, Tobias Uller, Geoffrey M. While   +4 more
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Close kin dyads indicate intergenerational dispersal and barriers

, 2022
The movement of individuals through continuous space is typically constrained by dispersal ability and dispersal barriers. A range of approaches have been developed to investigate these.
Schmidt, Thomas
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