Consequences of long- and short-term fragmentation on the genetic diversity and differentiation of a late successional rainforest conifer

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-362

  Mellick, Rohan ^a,b   Lowe, Andrew ^b   Rossetto, Maurizio ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INBREEDING; ISOLATED POPULATION; NICHE; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PODOCARPACEAE; PODOCARPUS ELATUS;

EID: 79959543597     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT10291     Document Type: Article

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