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HEREDITY
卷 85, 期 6, 页码 604-609出版社
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00822.x
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Abies balsamea; effective population size; fecundity variation; fir waves; drift; population size structure
The hierarchy of plant size often present in dense populations of plants and the close col relation found between size and fecundity can result in an unequal distribution of fecundity, which reduces the ratio of effective population size/census number (N-e/N). Such an effect has been found previously in annuals, but no study has hitherto tested for the effect in the lifetime fecundity variation of a perennial population. We use the demographically stable size distribution to be found in natural, wave-regenerating populations of balsam fir, Abies balsamea, in order to estimate N-e/N. In both wave-regenerating and normal forests our estimated values of N-e/N were about twice those previously reported for annuals. We suggest that fecundity variance is expected to be smaller in trees and other long-lived perennials than in annuals because density-dependent mortality operates mole strongly in the prereproductive phase of long-lived plants.
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