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Table 1 Estimates of the short-term effective population size (Ne) of the Cross River gorilla population

From: Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations

 

Method

Ne point estimator

95% boundaries

 

Moment estimators

221 1

n.d.

  

276 2

57 - infinity

 

Pseudo-likelihood

244 3

86 - infinity

 

Coalescence

1,626 4

165 - infinity

  

1,142 5

193 - 2,792

  1. 1 calculated with MNE; no 95% limits provided (n.d.)
  2. 2 ref. [63]
  3. 3 ref. [61]
  4. 4 refs. [34, 64]
  5. 5 ref. [34]