Implications of anthropogenic landscape change on inter-population movements of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 485-499

  Edwards, Taylor ^a   Schwalbe, Cecil R ^a   Swann, Don E ^b   Goldberg, Caren S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

conservation; desert tortoise; gene flow; Gopherus agassizii; microsatellite

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GENE FLOW; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REPTILE;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

AMPHIBIA; GOPHERUS; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; REPTILIA; TESTUDINIDAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4544306157     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000041031.58192.7c     Document Type: Article

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