The concept of effective population size, introduced by Sewall Wright (1931, 1933), is central to plant and animal breeding (Falconer and Mackay, 1996), conservation genetics (Frankham et al., 2010; ...
The assumption of equal catchability of marked and unmarked animals in mark-recapture sampling is examined. Violation of this assumption may come from two basic sources, heterogeneity or contagion, ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The problem of estimating the size of a population and its inverse is considered here on the basis of several independent simple random ...