Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on common species of Swiss fen meadows

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1043-1051

  Hooftman, Danny A P ^a,b   Billeter, Regula C ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^a   Diemer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carex davalliana; F statistics; Genetic drift; Isolation; Population persistence; Small habitats; Succisa pratensis

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INBREEDING; MEADOW;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

CAREX; CAREX DAVALLIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; SUCCISA; SUCCISA PRATENSIS;

EID: 4043084236     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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