Life at the margin: The mating system of Mediterranean conifers

Web Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 94-102

  Restoux, Gwendal ^a   Silva, Daniel E ^b,d   Sagnard, Fabrice ^a,e   Torre, Franck ^b   Klein, Etienne ^c   Fady, Bruno ^a  

^a French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INRA   (France)

^d LERFoB   (France)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CONIFEROUS TREE; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; OUTCROSSING; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 48949116397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13991183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/we-8-94-2008     Document Type: Article

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