Spatial modelling and landscape-level approaches for visualizing intra-specific variation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3532-3548

  Thomassen, Henri A ^a   Cheviron, Zachary A ^a,b   Freedman, Adam H ^a   Harrigan, Ryan J ^a   Wayne, Robert K ^a   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; conservation biology; ecological modelling; landscape genetics; population genetics; spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION TREE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW;

DECISION TREES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956080176     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04737.x     Document Type: Review

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