The Endangered Species <i>Dioon edule</i> in the Sierra Madre Oriental in San Luis Potosí: Demography and Genetic Diversity
Journal: IntechOpen eBooks
Year: 2021

The distribution of the endangered species Dioon edule is in populations scattered throughout the Sierra Madre Oriental in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Its habitat is tropical dry forests at lower elevations and oak forests at higher elevations, mainly disturbed by anthropic activities. We determined and analyzed nine populations’ demographic structure and explored the genetic diversity of five using SSR markers. The population density averaged 2050 individuals ha-1 and have an aggregated distributi