Dragon's blood tree - Threatened by overmaturity, not by extinction: Dynamics of a Dracaena cinnabari woodland in the mountains of Soqotra

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 772-778

  Habrova, Hana ^a   Cermak, Zdenek ^a   Pavlis, Jindrich ^a  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Age determination; Dracaena cinnabari; Population projection matrix; Soqotra; Stand dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST DYNAMICS; MATURATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; SURVIVAL; WOODLAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; HADRAMAWT; MIDDLE EAST; SOCOTRA; YEMEN;

DRACAENA (ANGIOSPERM); DRACAENA CINNABARI; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 59649129185     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.12.022     Document Type: Article

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