Population stage structure of Hawaiian endemic fern taxa of Diellia (Aspleniaceae): Implications for monitoring and regional dynamics

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1438-1445

  Aguraiuja, Ruth ^a,b   Moora, Mari ^a   Zobel, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Tallinn Botanic Garden   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diellia; Hawaiian Islands; Metapopulation; Population stage structure; Regional dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATA REDUCTION; GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COLONIZATION; D. PALLIDA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; REGIONAL DYNAMICS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FERN; METAPOPULATION; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CONSERVATION; FERNS; GENES;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

ASPLENIACEAE; BRYOPHYTES; DIELLIA; DIELLIA ERECTA; DIELLIA FALCATA; DIELLIA MANNII; DIELLIA PALLIDA; DIELLIA UNISORA; FILICOPHYTA; HAWAIIA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 11244305827     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B04-105     Document Type: Article

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