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Fine-scale refuges can buffer demographic and genetic processes against short-term climatic variation and disturbance: a 22-year case study of an arboreal marsupial.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2015
Banks Sam C, Lorin Thibault, Shaw Robyn E, McBurney Lachlan, Blair David, Blyton Michaela D J, Smith Annabel L, Pierson Jennifer C, Lindenmayer David B
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Ecological disturbance and climate are key drivers of temporal dynamics in the demography and genetic diversity of natural populations. Microscale refuges are known to buffer species' persistence against environmental change, but the effects of such refuges on demographic and genetic patterns in response to short-term environmental variation are poorly understood. We quantified demographic and genetic responses...
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