Combining the least cost path method with population genetic data and species distribution models to identify landscape connectivity during the late Quaternary in Himalayan hemlock

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 5781-5791

  Yu, Haibin ^a,b   Zhang, Yili ^a,c   Liu, Linshan ^a   Qi, Wei ^a   Li, Shicheng ^a,d   Hu, Zhongjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Landscape genetics; Least cost path method; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Species distribution models; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956720204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1840     Document Type: Article

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