Informing conservation units: barriers to dispersal for the yellow anaconda

Fine‐scale population structure is often unaccounted for in the delineation of conservation units, potentially compromising long‐term species persistence. Identifying biogeographic and environmental drivers of population boundaries is therefore of key conservation concern. We aimed to explore barriers to dispersal for the harvested yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) using an ecological niche model. Our secondary aim was to test the relative geographic and environmental contributions of a multisource occurrence data set in species range predictions.

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