Landscape genetic approaches to guide native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert:

Ecological Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 429-445

  Shryock, Daniel F ^a   Havrilla, Caroline A ^b   DeFalco, Lesley A ^a   Esque, Todd C ^a   Custer, Nathan A ^a   Wood, Troy E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

drylands; ecological restoration; genome scan; landscape genetics; local adaptation; Mojave Desert; multivariate analysis; seed provenance strategy; seed transfer zones; spatial genetics

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BOOTSTRAPPING; DISTURBANCE; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GYMNOSPERM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED SET; SHRUB;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EPHEDRA; EPHEDRA NEVADENSIS; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPHAERALCEA; SPHAERALCEA AMBIGUA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CALIFORNIA; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPHEDRA; GENETICS; MALVACEAE; NEVADA; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EPHEDRA; GENOME, PLANT; MALVACEAE; NEVADA;

EID: 85014521724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1447     Document Type: Article

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