Biodiversity consequences of genetic variation in bark characteristics within a foundation tree species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1146-1155

  Barbour, Robert C ^a   Forster, Lynne G ^a   Baker, Susan C ^b   Steane, Dorothy A ^a   Potts, Bradley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Forestry Tasmania and Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity management; Community genetics; Decorticating bark; Extended phenotype; Gene conservation; Intraspecific genetic variation; Plant animal interactions; Tree trunk communities

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BARK; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; FEEDING GROUND; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BARK; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; TREE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; PLANT BARK; TREES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; INVERTEBRATA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349213436     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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