Habitat fragmentation and adaptation: A reciprocal replant-transplant experiment among 15 populations of Lychnis flos-cuculi

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1056-1064

  Bowman, Gillianne ^a   Perret, Catherine ^a   Hoehn, Sophie ^a   Galeuchet, David J ^a   Fischer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Caryophyllaceae; Common species; Environmental change; Habitat quality; Local adaptation; Lychnis flos cuculi; Population size; Reciprocal transplantation experiment; Silene flos cuculi

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HERB; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SIZE; TRANSPLANTATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; LYCHNIS; LYCHNIS FLOS-CUCULI; SILENE;

EID: 49649102644     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01417.x     Document Type: Article

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