Table 1 Demographic parameters inferred under the best fitting demographic model (M7).

From: Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar

  

95% CI

Parameter

ML estimate

Lower bound

Upper bound

N0POP

13,937

11,796

14,133

N1POP

14,329

13,161

17,773

NANC

151,573

109,463

147,754

T1

1,073

910

2,025

T2

4,893

4,018

5,430

2NM0

7.23

6.73

9.34

  1. Maximum-likelihood (ML) estimates were obtained from the run with the highest composite likelihood. The respective 95% confidence intervals (CI) were generated by block-bootstrapping. All population size estimates are given in number of haploid copies. Time changes were scaled considering GT = 2.5 years. N0POP = effective population size for each population after the most recent population decline; N1POP = effective population size for each population after the older population decline; NANC = ancestral population size; 2NM0 = average number of haploid immigrants entering the population per generation. T1 = time of the most recent population decline; T2 = time of the older population decline. See Fig. 3d for a schematic illustration of M7. In bold: ML estimates that lie within the 95% confidence intervals. Note that the NANC estimate should be treated with caution as it falls outside the 95% confidence interval range.
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