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From the Apennines to the Alps: colonization genetics of the naturally expanding Italian wolf (Canis lupus) population.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2007
Fabbri Elena, Miquel Christian, Lucchini Vittorio, Santini Alberto, Caniglia Romolo, Duchamp Christophe, Weber Jean-Marc, Lequette Benoît, Marucco Francesca, Boitani Luigi, Fumagalli Luca, Taberlet Pierre, Randi Ettore
Abstract excerpt
Wolves in Italy strongly declined in the past and were confined south of the Alps since the turn of the last century, reduced in the 1970s to approximately 100 individuals surviving in two fragmented subpopulations in the central-southern Apennines. The Italian wolves are presently expanding in the Apennines, and started to recolonize the western Alps in Italy, France and Switzerland about 16 years ago. In this...
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