Regional dynamics of plants: A review of evidence for remnant, source-sink and metapopulations

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 248-258

  Eriksson, Ove ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; MASS EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; REMNANT POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED BANK; SOURCE-SINK HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0030301995     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546063     Document Type: Article

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