Glacial survival may matter after all: Nunatak signatures in the rare European populations of two west-arctic species

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 376-393

  Westergaard, Kristine B ^a,b   Alsos, Inger G ^a,c   Popp, Magnus ^b   Engelskjø, Torstein ^a   Flatberg, Kjell I ^d   Brochmann, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

AFLPs; amphi Atlantic disjunction; Arctic; conservation; cpDNA; dispersal

Indexed keywords

ARENARIA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE); ARENARIA HUMIFUSA; SAGINA CAESPITOSA;

EID: 78651325678     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04928.x     Document Type: Article

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