Table 3.

Estimates of effective population sizes for the indicated gorilla populations

Population	Method	Ne estimates
Cross River1	temporal	~250
Cross River1	ABC	271
Western lowland1	ABC	22,376
Western gorillas2*	IM	17,700
Western gorillas2*	θW	24,100
Western gorillas3*	MIMAR	13,000
Western lowland and Cross River (ancestral) 1	ABC	2,547

¹ This work

² ref. [17]

³ ref. [13]

* These studies included a single Cross River gorilla in their dataset