Dispersal constraints for the conservation of the grassland herb Thymus pulegioides L. in a highly fragmented agricultural landscape

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 765-776

  Vanden Broeck, An ^a   Ceulemans, Tobias ^b   Kathagen, Gunter ^b   Hoffmann, Maurice ^a,c   Honnay, Olivier ^b   Mergeay, Joachim ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Genetic diversity; Habitat fragmentation; Seed dispersal; Thymus pulegioides L

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934434926     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-015-0698-0     Document Type: Article

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