Crossing the border? Structure of the red deer (Cervus elaphus) population from the Bavarian-Bohemian forest ecosystem

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 211-220

  Fickel, Joerns ^a   Bubliy, Oleg A ^a   Stache, Anja ^b   Noventa, Tanja ^a   Jirsa, Adam ^c   Heurich, Marco ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^c umava National Park   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Male biased gene flow; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA; Suture zone

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BORDER REGION; DEER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUNTING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SUBPOPULATION; SUTURE ZONE;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; BOHEMIAN FOREST; BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; GERMANY;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84858752423     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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