Demographic Viability of a Relict Population of the Critically Endangered Plant Borderea chouardii

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1672-1680

  García, María B ^a,b,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY;

DIOSCOREA; DIOSCOREA CHOUARDII;

EID: 0346735384     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00030.x     Document Type: Article

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