Ecological and genetic evidence that low-order streams inhibit dispersal by red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-327

  Marsh, D M ^a   Page, R B ^a,b   Hanlon, T J ^a   Bareke, H ^a   Corritone, R ^a   Jetter, N ^a   Beckman, N G ^a,c   Gardner, K ^a   Seifert, D E ^a   Cabe, P R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RIVERS;

ECOLOGY;

AMPHIBIAN; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOLATION EFFECT; MOVEMENT; STREAM;

ANIMALIA; PLETHODON CINEREUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 34249944200     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z07-008     Document Type: Article

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