Habitat change and demography of Primula veris: Identification of management targets

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 833-843

  Lehtilä, Kari ^a   Syrjänen, Kimmo ^b   Leimu, Roosa ^c   Garcia, Maria Begoña ^d   Ehrlén, Johan ^e  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Habitat closure; Life table response experiment analysis; Population growth rate; Population viability; Restoration

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; HERB; LIFE TABLE; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED PRODUCTION; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMULACEAE;

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMULA;

PRIMULA VERIS; PRIMULACEAE;

EID: 33745131417     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00368.x     Document Type: Article

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