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Hiding in Plain Sight: A Case for Cryptic Metapopulations in Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Kazyak David C, Hilderbrand Robert H, King Tim L, Keller Stephen R, Chhatre Vikram E
Abstract excerpt
A fundamental issue in the management and conservation of biodiversity is how to define a population. Spatially contiguous fish occupying a stream network have often been considered to represent a single, homogenous population. However, they may also represent multiple discrete populations, a single population with genetic isolation-by-distance, or a metapopulation. We used microsatellite DNA and a large-scale...
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