PATHMATRIX: A geographical information system tool to compute effective distances among samples

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-180

  Ray, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distance matrix; Ecological distance; Heterogeneous landscape; Isolation by distance; Least cost path; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844343766     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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