Pollen flow and effects of population structure on selfing rates and female and male reproductive success in fragmented Magnolia stellata populations

BMC Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Setsuko, Suzuki ^a   Nagamitsu, Teruyoshi ^a   Tomaru, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fragmentation; Geitonogamy; Gene flow; Insect pollination; Landscape; Magnoliaceae; Paternity analysis; Pollen dispersal; Seed production

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; GEITONOGAMY; GENE FLOW; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLANT; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED DISPERSAL;

HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIA STELLATA; MAGNOLIACEAE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; MAGNOLIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; ARTICLE; MAGNOLIACEAE;

ANIMALS; GERM CELLS, PLANT; KINETICS; MAGNOLIA; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84875186923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-10     Document Type: Article

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