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Census vs. effective population size in chinook salmon: large- and small-scale environmental perturbation effects.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2003
Shrimpton J Mark, Heath Daniel D
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Population viability has often been assessed by census of reproducing adults. Recently this method has been called into question and estimation of the effective population size (Ne) proposed as a complementary method to determine population health. We examined genetic diversity in five populations of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) from the upper Fraser River watershed (British Columbia, Canada) at 11...
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