Interaction of climate, demography and genetics: A ten-year study of Brassica insularis, a narrow endemic Mediterranean species

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 509-526

  Noël, Florence ^a   Maurice, Sandrine ^a   Mignot, Agnès ^a   Glémin, Sylvain ^a   Carbonell, David ^a   Justy, Fabienne ^a   Guyot, Isabelle ^b   Olivieri, Isabelle ^a   Petit, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Conservatoire du littoral ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Demography; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction probability; Genetic monitoring; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA INSULARIS;

EID: 77952090808     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0056-1     Document Type: Article

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