Why replication is important in landscape genetics: American black bear in the Rocky Mountains

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1092-1107

  Short Bull, R A ^a   Cushman, S A ^b   MacE, R ^c   Chilton, T ^c   Kendall, K C ^d   Landguth, E L ^a   Schwartz, M K ^b   McKelvey, K ^b   Allendorf, Fred W ^a   Luikart, G ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

connectivity; gene flow; habitat fragmentation; landscape genetics; landscape resistance modelling; noninvasive sampling; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; ECOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; URSIDAE;

URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 79952447048     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04944.x     Document Type: Article

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