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A southern California freeway is a physical and social barrier to gene flow in carnivores.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2006
Riley Seth P D, Pollinger John P, Sauvajot Raymond M, York Eric C, Bromley Cassity, Fuller Todd K, Wayne Robert K
Abstract excerpt
Roads present formidable barriers to dispersal. We examine movements of two highly mobile carnivores across the Ventura Freeway near Los Angeles, one of the busiest highways in the United States. The two species, bobcats and coyotes, can disappear from habitats isolated and fragmented by roads, and their ability to disperse across the Ventura Freeway tests the limits of vertebrates to overcome anthropogenic...
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