Landscape genetics of mountain lions (Puma concolor) in southern Brazil

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 476-483

  Castilho, Camila Schlieper ^a,b   Marins Sá, Luiz G ^b   Benedet, Rodrigo C ^c   Freitas, Thales O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Serrano de Conservação da Natureza   (Brazil)

^c Projeto Puma   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dispersal; Gene flow; Isolation by Resistance; Landscape connectivity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISPERSAL; FELID; HABITAT LOSS; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MOVEMENT; PARENTAGE; POACHING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTECTED AREA;

BRAZIL;

PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 79956343588     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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