Genetic erosion in a stenotopic heathland ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae): A matter of habitat size?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-117

  Drees, Claudia ^a,b   De Vries, Henk ^c   Härdtle, Werner ^a   Matern, Andrea ^a   Persigehl, Markus ^a   Assmann, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allelic richness; Allozyme; Genetic diversity; Habitat fragmentation; Heathland species; Landscape genetics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALLOZYME; AUTOCORRELATION; BEETLE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEATHLAND; HETEROZYGOSITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; SURVIVAL;

EUROPE;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; POECILUS;

EID: 78650985378     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9994-x     Document Type: Article

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