Factors Affecting Persistence in Formerly Common and Historically Rare Plants
Ecologists and conservation biologists have long-standing intellectual and practical interests in rare species. The large numbers of rare species in the United States and the world have focused research attention on rarity as a phenomenon. in a comprehens
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Population Viability in Plants (onservation, Management, and Modeling of Rare Plants
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Dr. Christy A. Brigham Dr. Mark W. Schwartz Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, California 95616 USA
Cover illustration: The population viability of Florida scrub plants is strongly affected by fire (see Chap. 11). Endangered and threatened species shown include Dicerandra frutescens (top left, photo by Thomas Eisner), Eryngium cuneifolium (middle, photo by Amarantha QuintanaMorales), Hypericum cumulicola (bottom left, photo by Matthew Trager), and Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium (lower right, photo by Jennifer Schafer).
ISSN 0070-8356 ISBN 978-3-642-07869-9 ISBN 978-3-662-09389-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-09389-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Population viability in plants : conservation, management, and modeling of rare plants 1 C.A. Brigham, .M.W. Schwartz (eds.). p. cm. -- (Ecological studies, ISSN 0070-8356 ; vol. 165) Includes bibliographical references. I. Plant conservation. 2. Rare plants--Population viability analysis. I. Brigham, C. A. (Christy A.), 1972- 11. Schwartz, M. W. (Mark W.), 1958- III. Ecological studies; v. 165.
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Preface
The development of conservation biology as a discipline as weIl as the incre
