Conserving slow-growing, long-lived tree species: Input from the demography of a rare understory conifer, Taxus floridana

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 432-443

  Kwit, Charles ^a,c   Horvitz, Carol C ^b   Platt, William J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity analysis; Environmental stochasticity; Episodic recruitment; Matrix population models; Population dynamics; Spatial and temporal variation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

APALACHICOLA RIVER; FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; TAXUS FLORIDANA;

EID: 1842714399     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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