Ability of wildlife overpasses to provide connectivity and prevent genetic isolation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 548-556

  Corlatti, Luca ^a   HacklÄnder, Klaus ^a   Frey Roos, Fredy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Fragmentation; Genetic isolation; Vertebrates; Wildlife overpasses

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ISOLATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WILD ANIMAL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 65949116389     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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