Conservation of the grassy white box woodlands: Effects of remnant population size on genetic diversity in the allotetraploid herb Microseris lanceolata

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1279-1290

  Prober, Suzanne M ^a   Spindler D, Linden H ^a   Brown, A H D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLANT;

AUSTRALIA;

MICROSERIS LANCEOLATA;

EID: 0032426370     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.97100.x     Document Type: Article

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