Genetic and morphological divergence in island and mainland birds: Informing conservation priorities

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2902-2912

  Dudaniec, Rachael Y ^a   Schlotfeldt, Beth E ^b   Bertozzi, Terry ^c   Donnellan, Stephen C ^c,d   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolutionary lineage; Genetic divergence; Island; Mainland; Morphological divergence; Sex biased dispersal; Superb fairy wren

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HOME RANGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISLAND; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; KANGAROO ISLAND; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 83555164796     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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