Psilon
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A Psilon is a unit of length that is equal to 44 manly strides or, more precisely, 0.025 miles (a quarter of a tenth of a mile) or 40 meters. The Psilon is best known as the official unit of measurement during the censusing of plants in the genus Silene (see Silene) in a metapopulation surrounding Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County, Virginia.[1][2][3]
Etymology: Derived from the Latin Silene.
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- ↑ Thrall, P.H. & Antonovics, J.A. : "THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL-STUDIES OF METAPOPULATIONS - POPULATION AND GENETIC DYNAMICS OF THE SILENE-USTILAGO SYSTEM", pg S1249-S1258 . Canadian Journal of Botany, 1995.
- ↑ D.E. McCauley. "The Relative Contributions of Seed and Pollen Movement to the Local Genetic Structure of Silene alba", pg 257-263. Journal of Heredity, 1997. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a023103
- ↑ "Echoes", the MLBS Newsletter (Fall/Winter 2010)[not in citation given]
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