Species-specific responses to landscape fragmentation: Implications for management strategies

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 291-304

  Blanchet, Simon ^a,b   Rey, Olivier ^b,c   Etienne, Roselyne ^b   Lek, Sovan ^b   Loot, Géraldine ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Cultural context; Cyprinids; Dams; Genetic structure; Historical monument; Meta analysis; River restoration; Umbrella species; Weirs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954292803     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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