Dispersal limitations, rather than bottlenecks or habitat specificity, can restrict the distribution of rare and endemic rainforest trees

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-329

  Rossetto, Maurizio ^a   Kooyman, Robert ^a,b   Sherwin, William ^c   Jones, Rebecca ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Elaeocarpaceae; Elaeocarpus; Endemism; Genetic structure; Microsatellites; Persistence; Rarity

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENDEMISM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT SELECTION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; RARITY; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ELAEOCARPACEAE; ELAEOCARPUS;

EID: 41149173676     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.95.3.321     Document Type: Article

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