Prioritizing populations for conservation using phylogenetic networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Volkmann, Logan ^a   Martyn, Iain ^a   Moulton, Vincent ^b   Spillner, Andreas ^c   Mooers, Arne O ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BURRAMYS PARVUS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEIGHTENED EVOLUTIONARY DISTINCTIVENESS; MOUNTAIN PYGMY POSSUM; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OWL; PHYLOGENETIC NETWORK; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; RODENT; SHAPLEY VALUE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPOTTED OWL; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84896500727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088945     Document Type: Article

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