Effects of the landscape on boreal toad gene flow: Does the pattern-process relationship hold true across distinct landscapes at the northern range margin?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4858-4869

  Moore, Jennifer A ^a   Tallmon, David A ^b   Nielsen, Julie ^b   Pyare, Sanjay ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

amphibians; boreal toads; circuit theory; geographic information systems; landscape genetics; least cost path; south east Alaska

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TOAD; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS BOREAS; COWBONE RIDGE VIRUS;

EID: 81855208947     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05313.x     Document Type: Article

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