Genetic erosion explains deviation from demographic response to disturbance and year variation in relic populations of the perennial Primula vulgaris

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 960-972

  Endels, Patrick ^a   Jacquemyn, Hans ^a   Brys, Rein ^a,b   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction; Genetic erosion; Habitat fragmentation; Matrix projection models; Nested LTRE; Population viability; Primula; Stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

PRIMULA; PRIMULA VULGARIS; PRIMULACEAE;

EID: 34547964499     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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