A space-for-time substitution reveals the long-term decline in genotypic diversity of a widespread salt marsh plant, Spartina alterniflora, over a span of 1500 years

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 417-430

  Travis, Steven E ^a   Hester, Mark W ^b  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; Clonal plants; Genetic variation; Genotypic diversity; Heterozygosity; Population structure; Spartina alterniflora; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 16844362969     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00985.x     Document Type: Article

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