Decomposing demographic contributions to the effective population size with moose as a case study

Levels of random genetic drift are influenced by demographic factors, such as mating system, sex ratio and age structure. The effective population size ( N e ) is a useful measure for quantifying genetic drift. Evaluating relative contributions of different demographic factors to N e is therefore important to identify what makes a population vulnerable to loss of genetic variation. Until recently, models for estimating N e have required many...