Plant species lost in an isolated conservation area in Metropolitan Boston from 1894 to 1993

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-39

  Drayton, Brian ^a,b   Primack, Richard B ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b TERC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORISTIC LOSS; INTRODUCED PLANT; LOBELIAD; ORCHID; URBAN PARK;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON, MIDDLESEX FELLS;

EID: 0029667690     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010030.x     Document Type: Article

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