Demographic and Genetic Estimates of Effective Population and Breeding Size in the Amphibian Rana temporaria

• Published in: Conservation biology Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 142 - 151
• Main Authors: SCHMELLER, DIRK S, MERILÄ, JUHA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.02.2007; Blackwell Science; Blackwell; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley
• Subjects: Amphibia. Reptilia; Animal populations; Animal reproduction; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Anura; Applied ecology; Bayes Theorem; Biological and medical sciences; breeding; Conservation biology; Conservation of Natural Resources; Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife; Demographics; Demography; Ecological genetics; effective population size; Environmental Sciences; Estimation methods; Evolutionary genetics; explosive breeder; frogs; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; generation time; Genetic Variation; Genetics; Linkage Disequilibrium; Microsatellite Repeats; Microsatellite Repeats - genetics; microsatellites; microsatélites; Molecular genetics; Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking; Pero; physiology; Ponds; Population Density; Population estimates; Population genetics; Population number; Population size; Rana; Rana temporaria; Rana temporaria - genetics; Rana temporaria - physiology; Reproduction; Reproduction - physiology; reproductor explosivo; Reptiles & amphibians; Sex Ratio; Sus; tamaño poblacional efectivo; tiempo generacional; variance; Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution; explosive breeder; Demography; Amphibia; Population number; Salientia; microsatellites; effective population size; Vertebrata; Reproduction; Ranidae; Explosives; Generation time; Rana temporaria; anura; Environmental protection

Genetic methods for estimating effective population size ( Ne) or the effective number of breeders ( Nb) have become popular, but comparisons of these estimates with demographic estimates of Neand Nbare rare, especially in anurans. We used three genetic (linkage disequilibrium, temporal moments, Bay...