TY - JOUR AU - Yineger, Haile AU - Schmidt, Daniel J. AU - Hughes, Jane M. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/03/06 TI - Genetic structuring of remnant forest patches in an endangered medicinal tree in North-western Ethiopia JO - BMC Genetics SP - 31 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Habitat loss and fragmentation may have detrimental impacts on genetic diversity, population structure and overall viability of tropical trees. The response of tropical trees to fragmentation processes may, however, be species, cohort or region-specific. Here we test the hypothesis that forest fragmentation is associated with lower genetic variability and higher genetic differentiation in adult and seedling populations of Prunus africana in North-western Ethiopia. This is a floristically impoverished region where all but a few remnant forest patches have been destroyed, mostly by anthropogenic means. SN - 1471-2156 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-31 DO - 10.1186/1471-2156-15-31 ID - Yineger2014 ER -