Landscape effects on extremely fragmented populations of a rare solitary bee, Colletes floralis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4922-4935

  Davis, Emily S ^a   Murray, Tomás E ^b   Fitzpatrick, Nna ^c   Brown, Mark J F ^c,d   Paxton, Robert J ^e,f  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Ireland   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

conservation; dispersal; landscape genetics; management unit; mining bee; population structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; IRELAND; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; IRELAND; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DENSITY; SCOTLAND;

APOIDEA; COLLETES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78449311559     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04868.x     Document Type: Article

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