Evidence for recent population bottlenecks in northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1013-1021

  Funk, W Chris ^a,c   Forsman, Eric D ^b   Johnson, Matthew ^a   Mullins, Thomas D ^a   Haig, Susan M ^a  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Conservation genetics; Effective population size; Microsatellites; Strix occidentalis caurina; US Endangered Species Act; US Pacific Northwest

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR;

CASCADE RANGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA;

EID: 77952878566     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9946-5     Document Type: Article

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