Thomas R. Meagher

TL;DR: The most-likely male parents were identified by using genetic markers and evaluating the statistical likelihoods of paternity for seed collected from known female parents within a natural population of the forest herb Chamaelirium luteum, finding that males had a higher variance in the number of mates, showing a potential for sex-specific selection.

TL;DR: A computer simulation model was developed to test the effect of small population size upon the diversity and the relative frequency of the S-alleles which determine the number of available mates in a self-incompatible species.

TL;DR: This study provides a baseline assessment from which trends in the status of plant biodiversity can be measured and periodically reassessed and gives, for the first time, an accurate view of how threatened plants are across the world.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that genetic paternity analysis in natural populations cannot be reliably based on exclusionary principles alone, and more elaborate likelihood principles must be deployed in order to measure the reproductive contributions of individuals innatural populations.

TL;DR: Implementing the development and implementation of the IUCN Red List Index with a new sampled approach will greatly increase understanding of the status of the world's biodiversity by 2010, enabling the first assessment of a number of key groups.