Conservation genetics and clonality in two critically endangered eucalypts from the highly endemic south-western Australian flora

Biological Conservation

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-331

  Rossetto, Maurizio ^a   Jezierski, Grace ^b   Hopper, Stephen D ^b   Dixon, Kingsley W ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clonality; Conservation strategy; Eucalyptus; RAPD; Rare species

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPIC VARIATION; OUTCROSSING; PLANT GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

CLONAL ORGANISM; CONSERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION GENETICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS DOLOROSA; EUCALYPTUS PHYLACIS;

EID: 0032995073     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00119-0     Document Type: Article

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