When log-dwellers meet loggers: Impacts of forest fragmentation on two endemic log-dwelling beetles in southeastern Australia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1481-1492

  Schmuki, C ^a   Vorburger, C ^b   Runciman, D ^a   MacEachern, S ^a,c   Sunnucks, P ^a,d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adeliini; Allozymes; Anonymous nuclear DNA markers; Coleoptera; Dispersal; Forest fragmentation; Gene flow; Lagriinae; Mobility; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES; VICTORIA;

ADELIUM; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 33645883221     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02849.x     Document Type: Article

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