Pollen Dispersal Between Isolated Trees in the Brazilian Savannah: A Case Study of the Neotropical Tree Hymenaea stigonocarpa

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-199

  Moraes, Mário Luiz Teixeira de ^a   Sebbenn, Alexandre Magno ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Florestal de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Gene flow; Paternity analysis; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; IMMIGRATION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PARENTAGE; PASTURE; PATERNITY; POPULATION SIZE; SAVANNA;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO DO SUL;

HYMENAEA; HYMENAEA STIGONOCARPA;

EID: 79952057096     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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