Assessing Clark's nutcracker seed-caching flights using maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of whitebark pine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1103-1107

  Richardson, Bryce A ^a   Klopfenstein, Ned B ^a   Brunsfeld, Steven J ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SEED; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FLIGHT DISTANCES;

FORESTRY;

CACHING; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SEED DISPERSAL;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PINUS ALBICAULIS;

EID: 0036443519     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-037     Document Type: Article

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