NeEstimator v2 is a completely revised and updated implementation of software that produces
estimates of contemporary effective population size, using several different methods and …

… ldne that implements the bias-correction method of Waples (2006). ldne reads genotypic
data … We are presently conducting some of these evaluations as part of another project (Waples …

… We also thank Jérôme Goudet for sharing an unpublished manuscript, Silvain Piry for
providing a version of geneclass2 capable of batch processing many data sets, and Ryan Waples …

… Waples at the address above or e-mail: robin.waples@noaa.gov. This paper was delivered
at a symposium entitled ‘‘Conservation and Genetics of Marine Organisms’’ sponsored by …

In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional,
national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring biological …

… Waples also suggested that if data for a number of unlinked loci are available, collectively
they might provide adequate precision for the method to be useful. Some empirical …

… For this reason, a monitoring program that uses indirect genetic methods (Waples, 1990b) …
to a population that spawns naturally (Waples, 1991b). Furthermore, a num ber of …

Genetic methods are routinely used to estimate contemporary effective population size (N e
) in natural populations, but the vast majority of applications have used only the temporal (two…

The temporal method for estimating effective population size (Ne) from the standardized
variance in allele frequency change (F) is presented in a generalized form. Whereas previous …

… of the ESA, and 2) whether an ESA species is threatened or endangered, attention
should focus on “natural” fish, which are defined as the progeny of naturally spawning fish (Waples …