Importance of the seed bank for population viability and population monitoring in a threatened wetland herb

Biological Conservation

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-436

  Adams, Vanessa M ^a   Marsh, David M ^a   Knox, John S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Plants; Population monitoring; Population viability analysis; Seed bank; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HERB; MONITORING; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEED BANK;

HELENIUM; HELENIUM VIRGINICUM;

EID: 16844382116     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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