ESTIMATING ANIMAL ABUNDANCE USING NONINVASIVE DNA SAMPLING: PROMISE AND PITFALLS

By L. S. Mills, John J. Citta, Kevin P. Lair, Michael K. Schwartz, David Tallmon. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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Estimating Population Size of Elusive Animals with DNA from Hunter‐Collected Feces: Four Methods for Brown Bears (2005, unknown): “Those problems are now well known and methods have been proposed to counter them (Schwartz et al. 1999; Mills et al. 2000; Miller et al. 2002; Creel et al. 2003; reviewed in Paetkau 2003).”
Faecal DNA typing to determine the abundance and spatial organisation of otters (Lutra lutra) along two stream systems in Kinmen (2004, background): “Therefore, estimates of P(ID) in this study are acceptable for estimating population size (P(ID) < 0.01, Taberlet & Luikart, 1999; Mills et al., 2000).”
Density Estimation by Spatially Explicit Capture–Recapture: Likelihood-Based Methods (2009, background): “Passive DNA sampling (e.g. Woods et al. 1999; Mills et al. 2000; Boulanger and McLellan 2001; Boulanger et al. 2004) and camera traps (e.”
Sex identification in avian species using DNA typing methods (2007, background): “However, it was demonstrated by Mills et al. (2000) that various errors can occur as results of microsatellite genotyping from highly fragmented DNA and template DNA in low concentration.”
Ecological investigations of grizzly bears in Canada using DNA from hair, 1995–2005: a review of methods and progress (2010, background): “Inaccurate datasets with erroneous mismatches inflate estimates of abundance by increasing the number of unique genotypes and decreasing the number of recaptures (Mills et al. 2000, McKelvey and Schwartz 2004, Roon et al. 2005, Schwartz et al 2006).”
Beyond FST: Analysis of population genetic data for conservation (2004, background): “As is the case with genetic estimates of migration rates, however, indirect genetic estimates of effective population size represent a value fundamentally different from census size estimates derived from either physical studies or from recently developed direct genetic methods (Palsboll et al. 1997”
Empirical evaluation of non‐invasive capture–mark–recapture estimation of population size based on a single sampling session (2007, background): “when two individuals harbour the same genotype for the set of loci investigated (Mills et al. 2000; Waits & L berg 2000).”
DNA-Based Individual and Sex Identification from Wolverine (Gulo Gulo) Faeces and Urine (2004, methodology): “Traditional census methods such as direct counts and radio tracking can be inconvenient and inefficient when applied to rare animals living in remote areas (Greenwood 1996, Mills et al. 2000 ).”
Population monitoring of snow leopards using noninvasive collection of scat samples: a pilot study (2008, background): “amplification failure, allele dropout and false alleles) in microsatellite analyses that can significantly affect population size estimates (Taberlet et al., 1999; Mills et al., 2000; Waits, Luikart & Taberlet, 2001; Creel et al., 2003; McKelvey & Schwartz, 2004).”
Colonization History and Noninvasive Monitoring of a Reestablished Wolverine Population (2004, methodology): “Reliable estimates of population size require large sample sizes, which may be hard to obtain through conventional approaches (Mills et al. 2000).”
Best practice guidelines for surveys and monitoring of great ape populations (2008, background): “Therefore, studies should follow the stringent protocols developed for low quality and quantity samples (Taberlet and Luikart 1999; Taberlet et al. 1999; Mills et al. 2000; Morin et al. 2001; Waits 2004).”
Detection and accuracy rates of dogs trained to find scats of San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) (2003, background): “Moreover, advances in molecular genetics make faecal DNA sampling a promising approach for determining species, population size, sex ratio, home range, paternity and kinship (Kohn & Wayne, 1997; Kohn et al., 1999; Ernest et al., 2000; Mills et al., 2000; Lucchini et al., 2002).”
Estimating abundance of the remnant Apennine brown bear population using multiple noninvasive genetic data sources (2015, background): “Additionally, the accuracy of DNA-based surveys can be enhanced with quality assurance protocols to detect and eliminate genotyping errors (Waits and Paetkau 2005) and using a sufficient number of variable genetic markers to reliably identify individuals (Mills et al. 2000; Waits et al. 2001).”