Inbreeding, genetic variation, and invasiveness: The strange case of bromus tectorum

Rangelands

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-11

  Meyer, Susan E ^a   Leger, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GRASS; INBREEDING; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK;

NORTH AMERICA;

BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM;

EID: 77649228488     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: 1551501X     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/RANGELANDS-D-09-00004.1     Document Type: Article

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