Intercontinental Gene Flow among Western Arctic Populations of Lesser Snow Geese

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: Rainy I. Shorey, Kim T. Scribner, Jeannette Kanefsky, Michael D. Samuel, Scot V. Libants
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Ornithological Society 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Wrangel Island; Banks Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.100009

Quantifying the spatial genetic structure of highly vagile species of birds is important in predicting their degree of population demographic and genetic independence during changing environmental conditions, and in assessing their abundance and distribution. In the western Arctic, Lesser Snow Geese...