ArticleScience advances2022
Rapid assessment of adult abundance and demographic connectivity from juvenile kin pairs in a critically endangered species.
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- Application of close-kin mark-recapture to an American black bear population using harvest samples.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Assessing differences among elasmobranch nurseries to aid conservation based on a genomics framework.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Temporal Variability in Effective Size (Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Sharks and Rays of Northern Australia's Roper River, with a Range Extension for the Threatened Speartooth SharkAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Reliability of trans-generational genetic mark-recapture (tGMR) for enumerating Pacific salmon.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Accounting for unobserved population dynamics and aging error in close-kin mark-recapture assessments.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Close-kin mark-recapture informs critically endangered terrestrial mammal status.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Implications of past and present genetic connectivity for management of the saltwater crocodile (Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
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Abstract
The viability of spatially structured populations depends on the abundance and connectivity between subpopulations of breeding adults. Yet, for many species, both are extremely difficult to assess. The speartooth shark is a critically endangered elasmobranch inhabiting tropical rivers with only three adults ever recorded in Australia. Close-kin mark-recapture models, informed by sibling pairs among 226 juveniles, were developed to estimate adult abundance and connectivity in two Australian river systems. Sixty-eight sibling pairs were found, and adult abundance was estimated at 892 for the Adelaide River and 1128 for the Alligator Rivers. We found strong evidence for female philopatry, with most females returning to the same river to pup. Adelaide River males appear largely philopatric, whereas Alligator Rivers males are highly connected to the Adelaide River. From only 4 years of sampling, our results demonstrate that juvenile-only kin pairs can inform simultaneous estimates of abundance and connectivity in a rare and threatened species.
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