Demographic vulnerability of the clonal and endangered meadow thistle

Plant Ecology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-240

  Jongejans, Eelke ^a,b,c   De Vere, Natasha ^d,e   De Kroon, Hans ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e Living Coasts and Newquay Zoo)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonal propagation; Life table response experiments (LTRE); Matrix population model; Nutrient enrichment; Rosette turn over; Topsoil removal

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GRASS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HERB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIFE TABLE; MEADOW; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RHIZOME; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TOPSOIL; VULNERABILITY;

BOS; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM DISSECTUM; CIRSIUM SCARIOSUM; POACEAE;

EID: 50849139887     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9397-y     Document Type: Article

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