Late-Quaternary biogeographic scenarios for the brown bear (Ursus arctos), a wild mammal model species

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 418-430

  Davison, John ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^b,c   Bray, Sarah C ^d   Korsten, Marju ^a   Tammeleht, Egle ^a   Hindrikson, Maris ^a   Østbye, Kjartan ^e   Østbye, Eivind ^e   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^f   Austin, Jeremy ^d   Cooper, Alan ^d   Saarma, Urmas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Beringia; Colonization of North America; Expansion contraction model; Holarctic; Holocene; Last glacial maximum; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular clock; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Polar bear; Postglacial migration; Refuge area

Indexed keywords

BERINGIA; COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA; EXPANSION/CONTRACTION MODEL; HOLARCTIC; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR BEARS; POSTGLACIAL MIGRATION; REFUGE AREAS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA; GENES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA;

DNA SEQUENCES;

BEAR; COLONIZATION; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOLARCTIC REGION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; REFUGE; WILD POPULATION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 78951472553     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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