Predicting landscape-genetic consequences of habitat loss, fragmentation and mobility for multiple species of woodland birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Amos, J Nevil ^a   Bennett, Andrew F ^b   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Newell, Graeme ^c   Pavlova, Alexandra ^a   Radford, James Q ^b,d   Thomson, James R ^a   White, Matt ^c   Sunnucks, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; VICTORIA;

EID: 84857153626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030888     Document Type: Article

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