Rare vascular plant species at risk: Recovery by seeding?

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-74

  Pegtel, Dick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundance; Breeding system; Co gradient; Core population; Counter gradient; Dutch vascular flora; Fringe population; Geographic range; Restoration; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037752752     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1479086     Document Type: Article

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