Living at the edge: Local versus positional factors in the Long-Term population dynamics of an endangered orchid

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1219-1229

  García, María B ^a   Goñi, Daniel ^b   Guzmán, David ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b LARRE Consultores   (Spain)

^c Agrifood Research and Technology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Count based models; Cypripedium calceolus; Habitat change; Herbivory; Matrix models; Peripheral populations; Reproductive success; Stochastic population growth rate

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDGE EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE EXPANSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTONIA; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIDACEAE; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTONIA; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORCHIDACEAE; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CYPRIPEDIUM CALCEOLUS; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 77957144922     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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