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Published online 21 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010927-3
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Impact of landscape management on the genetic structure of red squirrel populations
Genes from museum exhibits record effects of forestry policies.
Commercial forest planting in the north of England drew red squirrels westwards in the 1980s say UK researchers. This migration led to big changes in squirrel numbers and genetics.
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