Fig 1.
Map depicting sampling sites (black dots) within the historical range of regent honeyeaters.
Gray dots indicate 2227 geographic sites for 4542 observational records of regent honeyeaters, data taken from Atlas of Living Australia [40].
Table 1.
Geographic locations of sampling sites, sample sizes for each individual location, and pooled sample sizes.
The birds at Sutton were pooled with those from Canberra, birds from Indigo Valley and Lurg were pooled with those from Chiltern, and birds captured at Cumbo Rd, Goulburn River, and Munghorn Gap were pooled together under the name Goulburn River for analyses.
Fig 2.
Spatial autocorrelation analysis showing spatial genetic structure in a) adult regent honeyeaters; b) adult males; c) adult females; and d) differences in structure between each sex.
No distance classes had significant (p < 0.01) r-values for any group, and no distance classes had r-values that were significantly different (p < 0.01) between males and females.
Table 2.
Pairwise FST values for wild-caught regent honeyeaters at different sites.
Fig 3.
R-value distributions of regent honeyeaters of known pedigree at Taronga Zoo for a) parents and offspring (mean R-value 0.3367); b) full-sibs (mean R-value 0.3498); c) half-sibs (mean R-value 0.0578); and d) unrelated birds (mean R-value -0.0369).
Fig 4.
Mean r-values for birds at each site.
Wild-bred founders of the captive population and captive-bred birds released into the wild were included in calculations as members of both Taronga Zoo and the wild site at which they were (re)captured. An asterisk (*) indicates an r-value is significantly (p < 0.05) different from zero.
Table 3.
Estimated mean effective population sizes as estimated by ONeSAMP for different sampling locations and for wild birds sampled before 2000 and after 2010.
Sample sizes at Goulburn River were too small for effective population size estimation.