The relative effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on population genetic variation in the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3679-3691

  Bruggeman, Douglas J ^a   Wiegand, Thorsten ^b   FernÁndez, Néstor ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

effective population size; FST; fragmentation per se; individual based model; landscape genetics; O ring statistics; Picoides borealis; spatially explicit population model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION DENSITY;

PICOIDES BOREALIS;

EID: 77956091245     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04659.x     Document Type: Article

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