Evolutionary diversity and ecology of endemic small mammals of southeastern Alaska with implications for land management planning

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 135-155

  Smith, Winston P ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Archipelago; Endemism; Evolutionary diversity; Island biogeography; Old growth forest; Phylogeography; Population viability; Small mammals; Temperate rainforest

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSITY; FOREST RESOURCES; GENETIC DIVERGENCE; TAXA;

BIODIVERSITY;

ENDEMISM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; SMALL MAMMAL; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; SENSITIVITY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS;

EID: 14844320120     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.026     Document Type: Article

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