Impacts of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity in a tropical forest butterfly on Borneo

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-634

  Benedick, Suzan ^a,b   White, Thomas A ^a   Searle, Jeremy B ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^c   Mustaffa, Nazirah ^a,b   Khen, Chey Vun ^d   Mohamed, Maryati ^b   Schilthuizen, Menno ^b,e   Hill, Jane K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^e NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forest remnants; Genetic erosion; Lepidoptera; Mycalesis orseis

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION SIZE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; MYCALESIS; ORSEIS; SATYRINAE;

EID: 35648968152     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467407004543     Document Type: Article

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