Black bear population genetics in California: Signatures of population structure, competitive release, and historical translocation

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1066-1074

  Brown, Sarah K ^a   Hull, Joshua M ^a   Updike, Douglas R ^b   Fain, Steven R ^c   Ernest, Holly B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Fish and Game ^*  (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife National Forensics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Black bear; Colonization; Gene flow; Microsatellite; Population genetic structure; Translocation; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEAR; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA; EXTINCTION; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSLOCATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 70350492583     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-193.1     Document Type: Article

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