Table 1.
Short summary of available information on the development of the population of white-tailed deer in Finland in the establishment phase.
Table 2.
Basic population-level statistics of genetic variability in the Finnish population and the population from Oklahoma (N for both 72).
Figure 1.
Temporal trend in population sizes (on 10-based logarithmic scale) of white-tailed deer adults and calves of both sexes after founding of the population.
Plotted are both estimates found in the literature (dots) and the population sizes predicted by the individual-based population genetics model under the assumed vital and reproductive rates (Table S2). The solid line shows the average population sizes and the dotted lines the lower (2.5 percentile) and upper (97.5 percentile) of 1000 model replicates. The predicted population dynamics underlying all three founding scenarios (Table 3) are similar.
Table 3.
Summary of the observed heterozygosity (H) and allelic richness (AR) of the white-tailed deer population and in individual-based population genetic simulations of its introduction.