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    The Assessment of Potential Threats to Eastern Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) in Southern Ontario

    Year: 2021, 2021
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Mitchell, Emily, Thesis advisor (ths): Freeland, Joanna, Thesis advisor (ths): Dorken, Marcel, Degree committee member (dgc): Wilson, Chris, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>In Canada, eastern flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) is an endangered tree that occurs only in the Carolinian forest of southern Ontario. Threats to this species include habitat fragmentation and the fungal pathogen dogwood anthracnose (Discula destructiva). I conducted a population genetic analysis using seven nuclear microsatellite markers to determine if fragmented populations are… more