Past and future range shifts and loss of diversity in dwarf willow (Salix herbacea L.) inferred from genetics, fossils and modelling

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-239

  Alsos, Inger Greve ^a,d   Alm, Torbjørn ^b   Normand, Signe ^c   Brochmann, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Amphi Atlantic; Arctic alpine; Climate change; Colonization; Conservation genetics; Glacial refugia; Ice age; Phylogeography; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EXTINCTION RISK; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; MODELING; POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WOODY PLANT;

ARCTIC; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

SALIX; SALIX HERBACEA;

EID: 60349106702     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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