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Table 3 Estimates of effective population sizes for the indicated gorilla populations

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

Population

Method

Ne estimates

Cross River1

temporal

~250

Cross River1

ABC

271

Western lowland1

ABC

22,376

Western gorillas2*

IM

17,700

Western gorillas2*

θW

24,100

Western gorillas3*

MIMAR

13,000

Western lowland and Cross River (ancestral) 1

ABC

2,547

  1. 1 This work
  2. 2 ref. [17]
  3. 3 ref. [13]
  4. * These studies included a single Cross River gorilla in their dataset