Unravelling dispersal patterns in an expanding population of a highly mobile seabird, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1518, 2003, Pages 979-984

  Burg, T M ^a,b   Lomax, J ^a   Almond, R ^a   Brooke, M D L ^a   Amos, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colonization; Fulmarus glacialis; Isolation by distance; Mitochondrial control region; Population bottleneck

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FLYING; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEABIRD; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ICELAND; SAINT KILDA; SCOTLAND (WESTERN ISLES); UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; FULMARUS GLACIALIS;

EID: 0038703411     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2322     Document Type: Article

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