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Relative contribution of inbreeding depression and eroded adaptive diversity to extinction risk in small populations of shore campion.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Feb 2006
Vilas Carlos, San Miguel Eduardo, Amaro Rafaela, Garcia Carlos
Abstract excerpt
To study the relative importance of inbreeding depression and the loss of adaptive diversity in determining the extinction risk of small populations, we carried out an experiment in which we crossed and self-fertilized founder plants from a single, large population of shore campion (Silene littorea Brot.). We used the seeds these plants produced to colonize 18 new locations within the distribution area of the...
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