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Consequences of severe habitat fragmentation on density, genetics, and spatial capture-recapture analysis of a small bear population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Murphy Sean M, Augustine Ben C, Ulrey Wade A, Guthrie Joseph M, Scheick Brian K, McCown J Walter, Cox John J
Abstract excerpt
Loss and fragmentation of natural habitats caused by human land uses have subdivided several formerly contiguous large carnivore populations into multiple small and often isolated subpopulations, which can reduce genetic variation and lead to precipitous population declines. Substantial habitat loss and fragmentation from urban development and agriculture expansion relegated the Highlands-Glades subpopulation...
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