Developmental instability in fragmented populations of prairie phlox: A cautionary tale

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 274-281

  Heard, Stephen B ^a   Campbell, Michael A ^a   Bonine, Mary L ^a   Hendrix, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC STRUCTURE; PLANT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PRAIRIE;

PHLOX PILOSA;

EID: 0032904776     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.013002274.x     Document Type: Article

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