Fine-scale population genetic structure in a wide-ranging carnivore, the leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in central India

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 760-771

  Dutta, Trishna ^a,b   Sharma, Sandeep ^a,b   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a   Wood, Thomas C ^b   Panwar, H S ^c   Seidensticker, John ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Peace Institute Charitable Trust   (India)

Author keywords

Corridors; Faecal DNA genetic structure; Habitat fragmentation; India; Non invasive sampling

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; FELID; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING;

INDIA;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 84879130355     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12024     Document Type: Article

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