Overcoming extreme weather challenges: Successful but variable assisted colonization of wild orchids in southwestern China

Biological Conservation

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-75

  Liu, Hong ^a,b,c   Feng, Chang Lin ^d   Chen, Bao Shan ^c   Wang, Zhong Sheng ^e   Xie, Xiao Qing ^f   Deng, Zheng Hai ^g   Wei, Xin Lian ^g   Liu, Shi Yong ^g   Zhang, Zi Bin ^g   Luo, Yi Bo ^h  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Yachang State Forestry Farm   (China)

^g Yachang Wild Orchids National Nature Reserve Administration   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme weather event; Hydropower projects; Managed relocation; Out of range translocation; Population dynamics; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORTALITY; PHILOSOPHY; RELOCATION; TRANSLOCATION; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WILD POPULATION;

CHINA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 84860219653     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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