Invasive hybridization in a threatened species is accelerated by climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 620-624

  Muhlfeld, Clint C ^a,b   Kovach, Ryan P ^b   Jones, Leslie A ^a,c   Al Chokhachy, Robert ^a   Boyer, Matthew C ^d   Leary, Robb F ^e   Lowe, Winsor H ^c   Luikart, Gordon ^b   Allendorf, Fred W ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d Montana Fish   (United States)

^e WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROSS-BEDDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FISH; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; POPULATION GENETICS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FLATHEAD RIVER; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903449356     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2252     Document Type: Article

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