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Population signatures of large-scale, long-term disjunction and small-scale, short-term habitat fragmentation in an Afromontane forest bird.
Heredity - 1 Sept 2014
Habel J C, Mulwa R K, Gassert F, Rödder D, Ulrich W, Borghesio L, Husemann M, Lens L
Abstract excerpt
The Eastern Afromontane cloud forests occur as geographically distinct mountain exclaves. The conditions of these forests range from large to small and from fairly intact to strongly degraded. For this study, we sampled individuals of the forest bird species, the Montane White-eye Zosterops poliogaster from 16 sites and four mountain archipelagos. We analysed 12 polymorphic microsatellites and three phenotypic...
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