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Genetic change following fire in populations of a seed-banking perennial plant.
Oecologia - 1 Nov 2008
Dolan Rebecca W, Quintana-Ascencio Pedro F, Menges Eric S
Abstract excerpt
Disturbances such as fire have the potential to remove genetic variation, but seed banks may counter this loss by restoring alleles through a reservoir effect. We used allozyme analysis to characterize genetic change in two populations of the perennial Hypericum cumulicola, an endemic of the fire-prone Florida scrub. We assessed genetic variation before and 1, 2, and 3 years after fire that killed nearly all...
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