Forest corridors maintain historical gene flow in a tiger metapopulation in the highlands of central India

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1767, 2013, Pages

  Sharma, Sandeep ^a,b,c   Dutta, Trishna ^a,b,c   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a   Wood, Thomas C ^b   Panwar, Hemendra Singh ^d   Seidensticker, John ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Peace Institute Charitable Trust   (India)

Author keywords

Central India; Connectivity; Gene flow; Landscape genetics; Non invasive genetic analysis; Panthera tigris

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FELID; GENE FLOW; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; POLICY MAKING; UPLAND REGION;

CHHATTISGARH; INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; MAIKALA RANGE; SATPURA RANGE; WESTERN GHATS;

PANTHERA TIGRIS; PANTHERA TIGRIS TIGRIS;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INDIA; TIGER;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIA; MODELS, GENETIC; TIGERS;

EID: 84896058701     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1506     Document Type: Article

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