Spatial genetic structure and dispersal of giant pandas on a mountain-range scale

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2145-2155

  Hu, Yibo ^a,b   Zhan, Xiangjiang ^a   Qi, Dunwu ^a,b   Wei, Fuwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ailuropoda melanoleuca; Habitat structure; Least cost path distance; Liangshan mountains; Sex biased dispersal; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BEAR; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CHINA; LIANGSHAN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 78049390936     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0100-1     Document Type: Article

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