Non-invasive genetic study of the endangered Cantabrian brown bear (Ursus arctos)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-301

  Pérez, Trinidad ^a   Vázquez, Fernando ^a   Naves, Javier ^a,b   Fernández, Alberto ^a,b   Corao, Ana ^a   Albornoz, Jesús ^a   Domínguez, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Individual identification; Microsatellites; Non invasive samples; Population structure; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GENETIC MARKER; ISOLATED POPULATION; NATIVE SPECIES; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECOVERY PLAN; SOFTWARE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 67349248109     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9578-1     Document Type: Article

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