Fenced and fragmented: Conservation value of managed metapopulations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Miller, Susan M ^a,b   Harper, Cindy K ^b   Bloomer, Paulette ^b   Hofmeyr, Jennifer ^c   Funston, Paul J ^a,d  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^d Lion Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CARNIVORE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LION; METAPOPULATION; NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84956900491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144605     Document Type: Article

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