Article
Using biogeographical history to inform conservation: the case of Preble's meadow jumping mouse.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2013
Malaney Jason L, Cook Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
The last Pleistocene deglaciation shaped temperate and boreal communities in North America. Rapid northward expansion into high latitudes created distinctive spatial genetic patterns within species that include closely related groups of populations that are now widely spread across latitudes, while longitudinally adjacent populations, especially those near the southern periphery, often are distinctive due to...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Climate Change
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Models, Genetic
- North America
- Phylogeny
- Rodentia