The interplay between habitat availability and population differentiation: A case study on genetic and morphological structure in an inland wader (Charadriiformes)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 641-656

  Verkuil, Yvonne I ^a,b   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c   Jukema, Joop ^d   Hooijmeijer, Jos C E W ^a   Zwarts, Leo ^e   Baker, Allan J ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d Altenburg and Wymenga Ecological Consultants ^*  (Netherlands)

^e Altenburg and Wymenga Ecological Consultancy   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancestral polymorphisms; Coalescent analysis; Glacial refugia; Philomachus pugnax; Phylogeography; Private alleles; Ruff

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; COALESCENCE; COASTAL WETLAND; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFUGIUM; WADER;

AFRICA; SCANDINAVIA; SIBERIA;

AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; PHILOMACHUS PUGNAX; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 84862321055     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01878.x     Document Type: Article

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