Anthropogenic landscape change promotes asymmetric dispersal and limits regional patch occupancy in a spatially structured bird population

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 940-952

  Pavlacky, David C ^a,f   Possingham, Hugh P ^a   Lowe, Andrew J ^b,c   Prentis, Peter J ^d   Green, David J ^e   Goldizen, Anne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c State Herbarium of South Australia   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric gene flow; Asymmetric migration; Bird conservation; Coalescent theory; Detection probability; Dispersal asymmetry; Landscape ecology; Landscape genetics; Microsatellite DNA; Subtropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASYMMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EMIGRATION; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HETEROGENEITY; IMMIGRATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASSERINE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; TREES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ORTHONYCHIDAE; ORTHONYX TEMMINCKII;

EID: 84864923428     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01975.x     Document Type: Article

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