Paleoecology meets genetics: Deciphering past vegetational dynamics

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 371-379

  Hu, Feng Sheng ^a,b,c   Hampe, Arndt ^b,c,d   Petit, Rémy J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; FOSSIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLACIAL HISTORY; MIGRATION ROUTE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; RANGE EXPANSION; RECONSTRUCTION; REFUGIUM; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 64849109943     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070160     Document Type: Review

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