Genes and song: Genetic and social connections in fragmented habitat in a woodland bird with limited dispersal

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1717-1727

  Pavlova, Alexandra ^a   Amos, J Nevil ^a   Goretskaia, Maria I ^b   Beme, Irina R ^b   Buchanan, Katherine L ^c   Takeuchi, Naoko ^a   Radford, James Q ^c,d   Sunnucks, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Australia; Central Victoria; Colluricincla harmonica; Grey shrike thrush; Habitat fragmentation; Isolation by resistance; Isolation by distance; Landscape bioacoustics; Landscape genetics; Landscape resistance; Population genetics; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONG; SONGBIRD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; COLLURICINCLA HARMONICA; PASSERI;

EID: 84864206687     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1891.1     Document Type: Article

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