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Enhancing the survival and expansion potential of a founder population through clonality.
The New phytologist - 1 Nov 2010
van der Merwe M, Spain C S, Rossetto M
Abstract excerpt
• Although founder populations often have low diversity, they can potentially serve as stepping stones for further colonization, as refugia during nonoptimal times and as a source of specialized adaptive potential. The demonstration of such potential within natural plant populations has proven to be particularly difficult. Our investigation into a geographically disjunct population of a heterostylous shrub,...
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