Genetic diversity and fitness in Scabiosa columbaria in the Swiss Jura in relation to population size

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-156

  Pluess, Andrea R ^a   Stöcklin, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

competition ability; conservation; genetic erosion; molecular variation; population differentiation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION SIZE; VIABILITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; JURA [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

BROMUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; SCABIOSA; SCABIOSA COLUMBARIA;

EID: 4043161519     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000029999.10808.c2     Document Type: Article

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