Genetic structure and early effects of inbreeding in fragmented temperate forests of a self-incompatible tree, Embothrium Coccineum

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 232-240

  Mathiasen, Paula ^a   Rovere, Adriana E ^a   Premoli, Andrea C ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Genetic diversity; Outcrossing rates; Population size; Progeny vigor; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME;

DEFORESTATION; FITNESS; FRAGMENTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INBREEDING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OUTCROSSING; PIONEER SPECIES; POLLINATOR; POPULATION SIZE; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SHRUB; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ARTICLE; CHILE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEACEAE; SEEDLING; TREE;

CHILE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; ISOENZYMES; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTEACEAE; SEEDLING; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; EMBOTHRIUM COCCINEUM;

EID: 33846985238     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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