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Fire Increases Genetic Diversity of Populations of Six-Lined Racerunner.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2016
Ragsdale Alexandria K, Frederick Bridget M, Dukes David W, Liebl Andrea L, Ashton Kyle G, McCoy Earl D, Mushinsky Henry R, Schrey Aaron W
Abstract excerpt
Wildfires are highly variable and can disturb habitats, leading to direct and indirect effects on the genetic characteristics of local populations. Florida scrub is a fire-dependent, highly fragmented, and severely threatened habitat. Understanding the effect of fire on genetic characteristics of the species that use this habitat is critically important. We investigated one such lizard, the Six-lined Racerunner...
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