An improved method for estimating inbreeding depression in pedigrees
Abstract 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1998)17:63.3.CO;2-7 Fitness is expected to decrease with inbreeding in proportion to the amount of deleterious genetic variation present in a population. The effect of inbreeding on survivorship is usually modeled as a negative exponential relationship, and this model has been widely used to estimate the amount of deleterious genetic variation in populations. Linear regression […]
Remedies for pseudoreplication
Pseudoreplication is the failure of a statistical analysis to properly incorporate the true structure of randomness present in the data. It has been well documented and studied in the ecological literature but has received little attention in the fisheries literature. Avoiding pseudoreplication in analyses of fisheries data can be difficult due to the complexity of […]
NOREMARK: Population Estimation from Mark-Resighting Surveys
Estimation of population size of a geographically and demographically closed but free-ranging population is a common problem encountered by wildlife biologists. The earliest approaches to this problem were developed by Petersen in 1896 and later by Lincoln in 1930, where capture-recapture techniques were applied. Extensions to the simple 2 occasion Lincoln-Petersen estimator were developed for […]