Publications by authors named "Sarah M Wenner"
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- The study investigates how natural and human-altered landscape factors influence the genetic connectivity of the declining Blainville's horned lizard in urban Los Angeles.
- Using genetic data, the research highlights distinct population structures and admixture between two evolutionary lineages, showing that habitat fragmentation significantly impacts gene flow.
- Key environmental variables like topography and soil types, alongside human disturbances such as urban development, play crucial roles in shaping the lizard's population dynamics and connectivity.
Cryptic species are a challenge for systematics, but their elucidation also may leave critical information gaps about the distribution, conservation status, and behavior of affected species. We use the leopard frogs of the eastern U.S.
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