Patterns of geographic variation in the skull of Nearctic Ermine ( Mustela erminea )

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Eger, Judith L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1990
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Macpherson; Ermine; Mustela erminea; Beringia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z90-185; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z90-185

A. H. Macpherson suggested that much of the current geographic diversity in species and species groups of arctic mammals resulted from isolation in glacial refugia during the Wisconsin glacial stage. The present study evaluates this refugium hypothesis using a statistical assessment of geographic va...