Conservation units and translocations: Strategies for conserving evolutionary processes

Hereditas

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-228

  Moritz, Craig ^a  

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BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; REVIEW; ZOOLOGY;

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EID: 0032879491     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1999.00217.x     Document Type: Review

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