How general are positive relationships between plant population size, fitness and genetic variation?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 942-952

  Leimu, Roosa ^a,d   Mutikainen, Pia ^b   Koricheva, Julia ^c   Fischer, Markus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Habitat fragmentation; Meta analysis; Plant fitness; Population size

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DNA; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 33746774404     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01150.x     Document Type: Review

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