Landscape genetics of the Alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris) inferred from a strip-based approach

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-50

  Emaresi, Guillaume ^a   Pellet, Jérôme ^b,c   Dubey, Sylvain ^d   Hirzel, Alexandre H ^a   Fumagalli, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b University of Bern ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Anthropogenic land uses; Dispersal; Fragmentation; Landscape genetics; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BREEDING SITE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MUTATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION GENETICS;

SWITZERLAND;

AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS ALPESTRIS;

EID: 78650989145     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9985-y     Document Type: Article

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