Limited genetic impacts of habitat fragmentation in an "old rare" relict tree, Euptelea pleiospermum (Eupteleaceae)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 909-917

  Wei, Xinzeng ^a   Jiang, Mingxi ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Euptelea pleiospermum; Genetic diversity; Habitat fragmentation; Nuclear microsatellite; Old rare species; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLONAL GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; DICOTYLEDON; ELEVATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; STREAM; TIMBER TRADE;

CHINA; HUBEI; INDIA; MYANMAR; SHENNONGJIA;

EUPTELEA; EUPTELEACEAE;

EID: 84862261097     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0052-2     Document Type: Article

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