Threatened peripheral populations in context: Geographical variation in population frequency and size and sexual reproduction in a clonal woody shrub

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 811-822

  Yakimowski, Sarah B ^a,b   Eckert, Christopher G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Peripheral populations; Range limits; Sexual reproduction; Species at risk; Vaccinium stamineum

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GERMINATION; PERIPHERAL REGION; POPULATION SIZE; RARE SPECIES; SEED PRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SHRUB;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOWER; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; UNITED STATES; VACCINIUM;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING; UNITED STATES; VACCINIUM;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ERICACEAE; MAIANTHEMUM DILATATUM; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM STAMINEUM;

EID: 34249081384     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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