High selfing rate, limited pollen dispersal and inbreeding depression in the emblematic African rain forest tree Baillonella toxisperma – Management implications

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 379, Issue , 2016, Pages 20-29

  Duminil, J ^a,b,c   Mendene Abessolo, D T ^a,d   Ndiade Bourobou, D ^e   Doucet, J L ^f   Loo, J ^a   Hardy, O J ^b  

^a BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale (IRET)   (Gabon)

^e Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique CENAREST   (Gabon)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Inbreeding; Logging; Selfing; Spatial genetic structure; Timber species

Indexed keywords

GENES; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; REFORESTATION; TIMBER;

GENE FLOWS; INBREEDING; SELFING; SPATIAL GENETIC STRUCTURE; TIMBER SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

AUTOGAMY; CONNECTIVITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INBREEDING; LOGGING (TIMBER); POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

CONGO BASIN;

BAILLONELLA TOXISPERMA; MAMMALIA; SAPOTACEAE;

EID: 84982839140     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.08.003     Document Type: Article

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