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The Relationship Between Plant-Pathogen and Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Plant Population Persistence in a Fragmented Landscape

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Population Viability in Plants

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 165))

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Contemporary landscapes are characterized worldwide by an increasing degree of fragmentation. Habitat patches are decreasing in size and the distance to neighboring patches is increasing. Populations inhabiting these patches are often small and isolated from con-specific populations. Since the early 1970s it has been recognized that this spatial configuration may influence the viability of remnant populations. Recently, quantitative modeling has been developed to evaluate the long-term viability of populations, an approach summarized under the term “population viability analysis” (PVA, for a review of PVA methods, see Chap. 6, this Vol.).

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Ouborg, N.J., Biere, A. (2003). The Relationship Between Plant-Pathogen and Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Plant Population Persistence in a Fragmented Landscape. In: Brigham, C.A., Schwartz, M.W. (eds) Population Viability in Plants. Ecological Studies, vol 165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09389-4_4

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