Contributions of long-distance dispersal to population growth in colonising Pinus ponderosa populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 380-389

  Lesser, Mark R ^a,b   Jackson, Stephen T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Intrinsic population growth; Long distance dispersal; Parentage; Pinus ponderosa

Indexed keywords

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 84931748963     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12053     Document Type: Article

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