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Does the seed bank contribute to the build-up of a genetic extinction debt in the grassland perennial Campanula rotundifolia?
Annals of botany - 1 Sept 2017
Plue Jan, Vandepitte Katrien, Honnay Olivier, Cousins Sara A O
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Background and Aims: Habitat fragmentation threatens global biodiversity. Many plant species persist in habitat fragments via persistent life cycle stages such as seed banks, generating a species extinction debt. Here, seed banks are hypothesized to cause a temporal delay in the expected loss of genetic variation, which can be referred to as a genetic extinction debt, as a possible mechanism behind species...
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