Post-zygotic reproductive isolation among populations of Iris atropurpurea: The effect of spatial distance among crosses and the role of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in determining niche width

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 425-445

  Sapir, Yuval ^a   Mazzucco, Rupert ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conservation; Habitat fragmentation; Iris section Oncocyclus; Optimal crossing distance; Spatial genetic model; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873629079     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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