Population size affects vital rates but not population growth rate of a perennial plant

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3210-3217

  Kolb, Annette ^a   Dahlgren, Johan P ^b   Ehrlen, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Demography; Habitat fragmentation; Integral projection models (IPM); Perennial herb; Phyteuma spicatum; Population growth rate; Population size; Population viability; Seed production; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERB; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEED PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; CAMPANULACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CAMPANULACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PHYTEUMA SPICATUM;

EID: 78249256093     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2207.1     Document Type: Article

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