Assessing scrub buckwheat population viability in relation to fire using multiple modeling techniques

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1672-1687

  Satterthwaite, William H ^a,b   Menges, Eric S ^a   Quintana Ascencio, Pedro F ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Demography; Density dependence; Elasticity; Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium; Fire; Florida scrub; Matrix models; Population ceilings; Population viability; Sandhill; Scrub buckwheat

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HERB; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SCRUB;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; ERIOGONUM; ERIOGONUM LONGIFOLIUM; ERIOGONUM LONGIFOLIUM GNAPHALIFOLIUM; QUERCUS;

EID: 0036996598     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1672:ASBPVI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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