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Roads, interrupted dispersal, and genetic diversity in timber rattlesnakes.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Aug 2010
Clark Rulon W, Brown William S, Stechert Randy, Zamudio Kelly R
Abstract excerpt
Anthropogenic habitat modification often creates barriers to animal movement, transforming formerly contiguous habitat into a patchwork of habitat islands with low connectivity. Roadways are a feature of most landscapes that can act as barriers or filters to migration among local populations. Even small and recently constructed roads can have a significant impact on population genetic structure of some species,...
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