Article
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...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Cluster Analysis
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Ecosystem
- Fisheries
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Geography