Spatial scales of genetic structure in free-standing and strangler figs (ficus, moraceae) inhabiting neotropical forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Heer, Katrin ^a,b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,c   Albrecht, Larissa ^b   García Villacorta, Roosevelt ^d   Staeps, Felix C ^a   Herre, Edward Allen ^c   Dick, Christopher W ^e  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; FICUS; FICUS CITRIFOLIA; FICUS INSIPIDA; FICUS OBTUSIFOLIA; FICUS YOPONENSIS; FOREST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; MORACEAE; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PERU; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; PROCEDURES; SEEDLING; WASP;

ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; FICUS; FORESTS; GENETIC STRUCTURES; MORACEAE; PANAMA; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; WASPS;

EID: 84941985629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133581     Document Type: Article

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