Coexistence and population genetic structure of the whooper swan Cygnus cygnus and mute swan Cygnus olor in Lithuania and Latvia
Abstract Two closely related swan species, the mute swan Cygnus olor and the whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, were formerly allopatric throughout their breeding ranges, but during the last decades a sympatric distribution has become characteristic of these species in the Baltic Sea region. The whooper sw...
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2012
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11535-012-0065-9 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/biol.2012.7.issue-5/s11535-012-0065-9/s11535-012-0065-9.xml http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/biol.2012.7.issue-5/s11535-012-0065-9/s11535-012-0065-9.pdf |