Conserving plant genetic diversity for dependent animal communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 776-780

  Wimp, Gina Marie ^a,b   Young, William P ^b,c   Woolbright, Scott A ^b   Martinsen, Gregory D ^b,d   Keim, Paul ^b   Whitham, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Nez Perce Tribe   (United States)

^d EcoPlan Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Community; Conservation; Genetics; Hybrid; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Populus angustifolia; Populus fremontii

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA; POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS FREMONTII; RIPARIA;

EID: 4444260671     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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