Landscape genetic connectivity in a riparian foundation tree is jointly driven by climatic gradients and river networks

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1000-1014

  Cushman, Samuel A ^a   Max, Tamara ^b,d   Meneses, Nashelly ^b   Evans, Luke M ^b,e   Ferrier, Sharon ^b   Honchak, Barbara ^b   Whitham, Thomas G ^b,c   Allan, Gerard J ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Conservation; Fremont cottonwood; Gene flow; Landscape genetics; Landscape resistance; Populus fremontii; Reciprocal causal modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; WOOD;

UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; RIVER; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; RIVERS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TREES;

EID: 84903853327     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1612.1     Document Type: Article

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