Effects of harvesting flowers from shrubs on the persistence and abundance of wild shrub populations at multiple spatial extents;Efectos de la Cosecha de Flores de Arbustos sobre la Persistencia y Abundancia de Poblaciones de Arbustos Silvestres en Escalas Espaciales Múltiples

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-84

  Cabral, Juliano Sarmento ^a   Bond, William J ^b   Midgley, Guy F ^c   Rebelo, Anthony G ^c   Thuiller, Wilfried ^d   Schurr, Frank M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Metapopulation dynamics; Process based models; Serotinous Proteaceae; South African Cape Floristic Region; Spatial scales; Threshold behavior

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLELE; CARRYING CAPACITY; FLOWER; HARVESTING; METAPOPULATION; MORTALITY; PERSISTENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FLOWER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FLOWERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 78751671864     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01628.x     Document Type: Article

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