Weak large-scale population genetic structure in a philopatric seabird, the European Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 768-778

  Barlow, Emily J ^a,c   Daunt, Francis ^a   Wanless, Sarah ^a   Álvarez, David ^b   Reid, Jane M ^c   Cavers, Stephen ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Movement; Phalacrocoracidae; Phylogeography; Population genetics; Seabird

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOVEMENT; PHILOPATRY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEABIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS;

EID: 84860396003     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01159.x     Document Type: Article

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