title: Estimation of the relative importance of sexual and vegetative reproduction in the clonal woodland herb Anemone nemorosa.
abstract: Anemone nemorosa is a perennial rhizomatous plant of European woodlands. The "probability of clonal identity" method estimated the relative proportion of sexual to vegetative reproduction in this species to be 4.4% from allozyme genotype distributions. This result is congruent with investigations on the germination, short-term demography, population genetics, and breeding system of this species, and supports the hypothesis that even low levels of seedling recruitment can maintain considerable intrapopulational genetic diversity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland (e-mail: holder@systbot.unizh.ch, Fax: +41-1-6348403), , , , , , CH.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Holderegger
authors.affiliation: Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland (e-mail: holder@systbot.unizh.ch, Fax: +41-1-6348403), , , , , , CH.
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stehlik
authors.affiliation: Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstr. 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland (e-mail: holder@systbot.unizh.ch, Fax: +41-1-6348403), , , , , , CH.
authors.forename: J Jakob
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Schneller
keywords: Clonal identity; Key wordsAnemone nemorosa; Repeated seedling recruitment; Sexual reproduction; Vegetative reproduction