Limited ecological connectivity of an arboreal marsupial across a forest/plantation landscape despite apparent resilience to fragmentation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2258-2271

  Lancaster, Melanie L ^a   Taylor, Andrea C ^c   Cooper, Steven J B ^b   Carthew, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

connectivity; dispersal; fragmentation; gene flow; mammal; population genetics; possum; Pseudocheirus peregrinus

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MARSUPIAL; PINE; POPULATION MIGRATION; TREE;

ALLELES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION THEORY; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PINUS; SOFTWARE; TREES;

BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS; EUCALYPTUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PINUS RADIATA; PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS;

EID: 79956364924     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05072.x     Document Type: Article

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