Population fragmentation leads to isolation by distance but not genetic impoverishment in the philopatric Lesser Kestrel: A comparison with the widespread and sympatric Eurasian Kestrel

Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-198

  Alcaide, M ^a   Serrano, D ^a   Negro, J J ^a   Tella, J L ^a   Laaksonen, T ^b   Muller C ^c   Gal, A ^d   Korpimaki E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Gene flow; Genetic diversity; Genetic structure; Habitat fragmentation; Steppe land birds

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALCONIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FALCONIFORMES; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AVES; FALCO NAUMANNI; FALCO TINNUNCULUS;

EID: 58549093724     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.107     Document Type: Article

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