Climate induced changes in matrix suitability explain gene flow in a fragmented landscape - the effect of interannual rainfall variability

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 650-660

  Blaum, Niels ^a   Schwager, Monika ^b   Wichmann, Matthias C ^c   Rossmanith, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FRAGMENTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MATRIX; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFALL; SAVANNA; SMALL MAMMAL; SUBPOPULATION; SURVIVAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84862761128     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07154.x     Document Type: Article

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