Environmental factors influence both abundance and genetic diversity in a widespread bird species

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4683-4695

  Liu, Yang ^a,b   Webber, Simone ^c   Bowgen, Katharine ^d   Schmaltz, Lucie ^e   Bradley, Katharine ^f   Halvarsson, Peter ^g   Abdelgadir, Mohanad ^g,h   Griesser, Michael ^i,j  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f Uppsala University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Animals; Conservation; Molecular ecology; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 84888311312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.856     Document Type: Article

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