Population size and the risk of local extinction: Empirical evidence from rare plants

Oikos

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 481-488

  Matthies, Diethart ^a   Bräuer, Ingo ^b,c   Maibom, Wiebke ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Dept of Agricultural Economics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RARE SPECIES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

CILIOPHORA; GENTIANELLA; GENTIANELLA GERMANICA; LEPIDIUM; LEPIDIUM CAMPESTRE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MELAMPYRUM; RHINANTHUS MINOR; RHINANTHUS SEROTINUS; THLASPI; THLASPI PERFOLIATUM;

EID: 3042623019     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12800.x     Document Type: Article

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