Fig. 4

Determinants of contemporary genetic diversity across pinnipeds. a Shows a scatterplot of Ar versus pbot with the grey line representing the model prediction. b Shows the relationship between global abundance and allelic richness (Ar) with the blue and yellow lines representing model predictions for ice-breeding and land-breeding seals respectively. Marginal and unique R2 values, standardised β estimates and structure coefficients for the model are shown respectively in c–e, where they are presented as posterior medians with 95% credible intervals. Species abbreviations are given in Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 1