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Genetic diversity, structure, and effective population size of an endangered, endemic hoary bat, 'ōpe'ape'a, across the Hawaiian Islands.
PeerJ - 1 Jan 2023
Pinzari Corinna A, Bellinger M Renee, Price Donald, Bonaccorso Frank J
Abstract excerpt
Island bat species are disproportionately at risk of extinction, and Hawai'i's only native terrestrial land mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus) locally known as 'ōpe'ape'a, is no exception. To effectively manage this bat species with an archipelago-wide distribution, it is important to determine the population size on each island and connectivity between islands. We used 18 nuclear microsatellite...
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