Structure and fragmentation of growling grass frog metapopulations

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 313-322

  Hale, Joshua M ^a,b   Heard, Geoffrey W ^b,c   Smith, Katie L ^a,b   Parris, Kirsten M ^b   Austin, Jeremy J ^a,d   Kearney, Michael ^b   Melville, Jane ^a  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endangered; Growling grass frog; Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulation; Microsatellites; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAND USE CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBANIZATION; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; LITORIA; LITORIA RANIFORMIS; RANA SP.;

EID: 84875710666     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-012-0428-9     Document Type: Article

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