Hair snaring and molecular genetic identification for reconstructing the spatial structure of Eurasian lynx populations

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-126

  Davoli, Francesca ^a   Schmidt, Krzysztof ^b   Kowalczyk, Rafał ^b   Randi, Ettore ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Lynx lynx; Microsatellites; Non invasive genetic sampling; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DATA SET; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HOME RANGE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONITORING; RADIOTELEMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; SCENT MARKING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST; POLAND;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 84875378485     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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