Data from: Multiple estimates of effective population size for monitoring a long-lived vertebrate: an application to Yellowstone grizzly bears

• Main Authors: Kamath, Pauline L., Haroldson, Mark A., Luikart, Gordon, Paetkau, David, Whitman, Craig, van Manen, Frank T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Conservation Genetics; Genetic Monitoring; Effective Population Size; Effective Number of Breeders; Ne/Nc ratio; Population Size; wildlife management; Nev; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.97193; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s6764

Effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter for monitoring the genetic health of threatened populations because it reflects a population's evolutionary potential and risk of extinction due to genetic stochasticity. However, its application to wildlife monitoring has been limited because i...