Patch aging and the S-Allee effect: Breeding system effects on the demographic response of plants to habitat fragmentation

American Naturalist

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-397

  Wagenius, Stuart ^a   Lonsdorf, Eric ^b,c   Neuhauser, Claudia ^b  

^a Institute for Plant Conservation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Lincoln Park Zoo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Echinacea angustifolia; Mating system; Pollen limitation; Prairie; Self incompatibility; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALLEE EFFECT; ANGIOSPERM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH DYNAMICS; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHINACEA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SELF FERTILIZATION; SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY (PLANT); SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHINACEA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MINNESOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELF-FERTILIZATION; SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY IN FLOWERING PLANTS;

ECHINACEA (ASTERACEAE); ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33847406240     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511313     Document Type: Article

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