Landscape resistance and American marten gene flow

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-43

  Koen, Erin L ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^a   Garroway, Colin J ^a,c   Mills, Stephen C ^b   Wilson, Paul J ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Circuitscape; Conditional genetic distance; Dispersal; Graph theory; Landscape genetics; Map boundary; Martes americana; Ontario; Spatial principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; MUSTELID; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ANIMALIA; MARTES AMERICANA;

EID: 83555179141     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9675-2     Document Type: Article

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