Songbird genetic diversity is lower in anthropogenically versus naturally fragmented landscapes

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1195-1203

  MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^a   Clinchy, Michael ^b   Zanette, Liana ^a   Neff, Bryan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Habitat fragmentation; Heterozygosity; Islands; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING SITE; COASTAL ZONE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBAN AREA;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 80052508836     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0222-0     Document Type: Article

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