Fine-scale refuges can buffer demographic and genetic processes against short-term climatic variation and disturbance: A 22-year case study of an arboreal marsupial

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3831-3845

  Banks, Sam C ^a   Lorin, Thibault ^a   Shaw, Robyn E ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Blair, David ^a   Blyton, Michaela D J ^a,b   Smith, Annabel L ^a   Pierson, Jennifer C ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ecosystem greenspot; fire; heterogeneity; microrefuge; refugia; temporal genetic structure

Indexed keywords

METATHERIA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS CANINUS;

RAIN;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; TRICHOSURUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84937732622     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13279     Document Type: Article

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