Authors
Morten T Olsen, Liselotte W Andersen, Rune Dietz, Jonas Teilmann, Tero Härkönen, Hans R Siegismund
Publication date
2014/2
Journal
Molecular ecology
Volume
23
Issue
4
Pages
815-831
Description
Identification of populations and management units is an essential step in the study of natural systems. Still, there is limited consensus regarding how to define populations and management units, and whether genetic methods allow for inference at the relevant spatial and temporal scale. Here, we present a novel approach, integrating genetic, life history and demographic data to identify populations and management units in southern Scandinavian harbour seals. First, 15 microsatellite markers and model‐ and distance‐based genetic clustering methods were used to determine the population genetic structure in harbour seals. Second, we used harbour seal demographic and life history data to conduct population viability analyses (PVAs) in the vortex simulation model in order to determine whether the inferred genetic units could be classified as management units according to Lowe and Allendorf's (Molecular …
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