High levels of population differentiation in Eurasian lynx at the edge of the species' western range in Europe revealed by mitochondrial DNA analyses

Animal Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 603-612

  Ratkiewicz, M ^a   Matosiuk, M ^a   Kowalczyk, R ^b   Konopinski M K ^c   Okarma, H ^c   Ozolins, J ^d   Mannil P ^e   Ornicans, A ^d   Schmidt, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^d LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^e Centre of Forest Protection and Silviculture   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Gene flow; Genetic structure; Habitat fragmentation; Lynx lynx; Peripheral populations

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FELID; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION GENETICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CARPATHIANS; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 84871448480     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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