Ecological Factors Drive Differentiation in Wolves from British Columbia

• Main Authors: Muñoz-Fuentes, Violeta, Darimont, Chris T., Wayne, Robert K., Paquet, Paul C., Leonard, Jennifer A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: WBI Studies Repository 2009
• Subjects: Canis lupus; conservation biogeography; ESU; faecal DNA; GPS; landscape genetics; mitochondrial DNA; museum specimens; phylogeography; wolf; Animal Studies; Environmental Studies; Population Biology; British Columbia; Canada; Northwest Territories; Alaska
• Online Access: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/popdhab/7; http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/61670/1/Biogeography.pdf

Aim Limited population structure is predicted for vagile, generalist species, such as the grey wolf (Canis lupus L.). Our aims were to study how genetic variability of grey wolves was distributed in an area comprising different habitats that lay within the potential dispersal range of an individual...