Population viability analyses in plants: Challenges and opportunities

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 51-56

  Menges, Eric S ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGEMENT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

EID: 0034144257     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01763-2     Document Type: Review

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