Fine-scale effects of habitat loss and fragmentation despite large-scale gene flow for some regionally declining woodland bird species

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 813-827

  Harrisson, Katherine A ^a   Pavlova, Alexandra ^a   Amos, J Nevil ^a   Takeuchi, Naoko ^a   Lill, Alan ^a   Radford, James Q ^b,c   Sunnucks, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demographic connectivity; Dispersal; Genetic structure; Landscape connectivity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONNECTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXTINCTION RISK; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INBREEDING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DECLINE; SCALE EFFECT; SEX RATIO; TRADE-OFF; VEGETATION COVER; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; EOPSALTRIA AUSTRALIS; PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS; SMICRORNIS BREVIROSTRIS;

EID: 84862121975     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9743-2     Document Type: Article

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