Seed Germination Percentage Increases with Population Size in a Fragmented Prairie Species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 158-164

  MENGES, ERIC S ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHFLY; GERMINATION; HUMMINGBIRD; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION SIZE; PRAIRIE; ROYAL CATCHFLY;

SILENE; SILENE REGIA;

EID: 0026269705     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1991.tb00120.x     Document Type: Article

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