Phylogeography of the Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii): Historical vicariance but little present genetic structure in a regionally endangered Palearctic wader

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 704-716

  Rönkä, Nelli ^a   Kvist, Laura ^a   Pakanen, Veli Matti ^a   Rönkä, Antti ^a   Degtyaryev, Victor ^b   Tomkovich, Pavel ^c   Tracy, Diane ^d   Koivula, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CRYOLITHOZONE   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I; Microsatellites; MtDNA; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Population structure

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INTROGRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VICARIANCE; WADER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN BAY; EURASIA; GULF OF BOTHNIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

CALIDRIS TEMMINCKII;

EID: 84862000571     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00865.x     Document Type: Article

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