Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population

Benjamin H. Letcher; Keith H. Nislow; Jason A. Coombs; Matthew J. O'Donnell; Todd L. Dubreuil

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001139

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Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population

Benjamin H. Letcher ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ben_letcher@usgs.gov

Affiliation S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Keith H. Nislow,

Affiliation Northern Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jason A. Coombs,

Affiliations S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Matthew J. O'Donnell,

Affiliation S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Todd L. Dubreuil

Affiliation S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population

Benjamin H. Letcher,
Keith H. Nislow,
Jason A. Coombs,
Matthew J. O'Donnell,
Todd L. Dubreuil

Published: November 7, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001139

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Integrative study important to conservation and local adapation

Posted by ErikiLund on 20 Dec 2007 at 20:39 GMT

I handled this paper as an Academic Editor, and I was impressed by the integrative approach by the authors, in which they used a powerful combination of demographic modelling, estimates of gene flow using molecular markers and ecological information. This study should be of interest both to those interested in local adaptation and to those interested in population viability and conservation biology.

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