Factors related to the occurrence of hybrids between brown hares Lepus europaeus and mountain hares L. timidus in Sweden

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 709-715

  Jansson, Gunnar ^a   Thulin, Carl Gustaf ^a,b   Pehrson, Åke ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; GENE FLOW; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; LAGOMORPH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS;

EID: 35848965697     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0906-7590.05162.x     Document Type: Article

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