Effective population size is strongly correlated with breeding pond size in the endangered California tiger salamander, Ambystoma californiense

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 911-920

  Wang, Ian J ^a,b   Johnson, Jarrett R ^a,c   Johnson, Benjamin B ^a   Shaffer, Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Dispersal; Effective population size; Landscape genetics; Microsatellite; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BREEDING SITE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROGENEITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIZARD; POND; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA CALIFORNIENSE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79960590229     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0194-0     Document Type: Article

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