The interaction of inbreeding depression and environmental stochasticity in the risk of extinction of small populations.

doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8510-2_12

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The interaction of inbreeding depression and environmental stochasticity in the risk of extinction of small populations.

EXS - 1 Jan 1994

van Noordwijk A J

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Current population genetic and population dynamic models are inappropriate to judge the risk of extinction of small populations due to the combined effects of inbreeding, genetic drift, demographic stochasticity, and environmental stochasticity. Instead, a model based on the aggregated fates of i...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Conservation of Natural Resources
Environment
Gene Frequency
Genes, Lethal
Genetics, Population
Inbreeding
Models, Theoretical
Population Dynamics
Stochastic Processes

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