Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1760, 2013, Pages

  Fuller, Trevon L ^a   Thomassen, Henri A ^a,m   Peralvo, Manuel ^b   Buermann, Wolfgang ^a,c   Milá, Borja ^a,d   Kieswetter, Charles M ^e   Jarrín V, Pablo ^f   Devitt, Susan E Cameron ^g   Mason, Eliza ^a,h   Schweizer, Rena M ^a   Schlunegger, Jasmin ^a   Chan, Janice ^a   Wang, Ophelia ^i,j   Schneider, Christopher J ^e   Pollinger, John P ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^a,k   Graham, Catherine H ^l   Wayne, Robert K ^a   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Diego de Brieda E17 169 y Clemente Celi (Sector Bellavista)   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e USA   (United States)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^j NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation planning; Indicator; Reserve selection; Species; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INTROGRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURROGATE METHOD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; AVES;

EID: 84878335577     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0423     Document Type: Article

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