Table 1.

Demographic parameters for Mauritia flexuosa based on coalescent analyses for 10 microsatellite loci

Biome	Basin	θ	θ 95% CI	Ne	Ne 95% CI
Amazonia	Overall	4.825	0.845–10.000	1566.56	274.55–3246.69
	Amazon	0.224	0.075–0.431	72.66	24.45–140.06
	Caribbean	0.027	0.011–0.059	8.83	3.64–19.16
	North Atlantic	0.017	0.005–0.034	5.49	1.78–10.94
	Orinoco	0.102	0.052–0.176	33.12	16.95–57.14
Cerrado	Overall	2.526	0.066–8.900	820.07	21.66–2901.53
	Paraná-Paraguay	0.029	0.010–0.056	9.55	3.31–18.28
	São Francisco	0.014	0.004–0.027	4.58	1.41–8.86
	Araguaia-Tocantins	0.037	0.016–0.065	12.24	5.49–21.10
Overall populations		9.021	7.151–10.000	2928.79	2322.01–3246.75

The analyses were performed per river basin, biome and over all populations

θ coalescent or mutation parameter, Ne effective population size, CI credibility interval