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Meta-analysis of susceptibility of woody plants to loss of genetic diversity through habitat fragmentation.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Apr 2012
Vranckx Guy, Jacquemyn Hans, Muys Bart, Honnay Olivier
Abstract excerpt
Shrubs and trees are assumed less likely to lose genetic variation in response to habitat fragmentation because they have certain life-history characteristics such as long lifespans and extensive pollen flow. To test this assumption, we conducted a meta-analysis with data on 97 woody plant species derived from 98 studies of habitat fragmentation. We measured the weighted response of four different measures of...
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