Table 2 Estimates of effective populations size (Ne) from three independent methods.

From: Rapid adaptive phenotypic change following colonization of a newly restored habitat

N e (field)

N e (OU)

N e (molecular)

F IS

7.75 (2–16)

23.39 (4.68–32.75)

23.60 (14.10–51)

0.123 (P=0.01)

  1. Field, harmonic mean of number of breeding pairs with the range shown in parentheses. OU, Ne1/4h2s2 p/s2 step, where h2 is the trait heritability (set to 0.5, with 0.1–0.7 shown in parentheses), s2 p is the phenotypic variance of the sample and s2 step is the step variance. molecular, linkage disequilibrium method with Ne estimator with 95% confidence intervals shown in parentheses.
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