Land-use effects on genetic structure of a common grassland herb: A matter of scale

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 440-448

  Kloss, Lena ^a   Fischer, Markus ^b,c   Durka, Walter ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AFLP; Biodiversity exploratories; Breeding system; Grazing; Isolation by distance; Mowing; Pollen ovule ratio; Pollination experiment; Spatial autocorrelation; Veronica

Indexed keywords

VERONICA; VERONICA CHAMAEDRYS;

EID: 79960914022     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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