Relationships between population density, fine-scale genetic structure, mating system and pollen dispersal in a timber tree from African rainforests

Heredity

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 295-303

  Duminil, J ^a,b,c   Dainou K ^b,c,d   Kaviriri, D K ^a,e   Gillet, P ^b,c   Loo, J ^a   Doucet, J L ^c   Hardy, O J ^b  

^a BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d Nature+asbl   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KISANGANI   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEGUME; LOGGING (TIMBER); POLLEN; POLLEN LIMITATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TREE;

CENTRAL AFRICA;

ERYTHROPHLEUM SUAVEOLENS;

AFRICA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FABACEAE; FORESTRY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; RAIN FOREST; TREE;

AFRICA; FABACEAE; FORESTRY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; TREES;

EID: 84958102416     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2015.101     Document Type: Article

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