Habitat loss causes non-linear genetic erosion in specialist species

Habitat loss can lead to non-linear declines in species abundance once the amount of landscape-wide habitat is reduced to a critical value. Previous studies have suggested that such non-linear responses to landscape-wide habitat loss might also exist in genetic variation, and an in-depth understandi...

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Main Authors: Femke J. Pflüger, Johannes Signer, Niko Balkenhol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418302464