Population growth and viability analyses of the clonal woodland herb, Asarum canadense

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-26

  Damman, Hans ^a   Cain, Michael L ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal plants; Demographic stochasticity; Elasticity; Environmental stochasticity; Minimum viable population size; Spatial and temporal variation; Transition matrix

Indexed keywords

HERB; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; STOCHASTICITY; WOODLAND;

CLONAL PLANT; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELLING; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ASARUM CANADENSE;

EID: 0031887511     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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