Rain forest vegetation of 'Eua Island, Kingdom of Tonga

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-77

  Drake, Donald R ^a   Whistler, W Arthur ^b   Motley, Timothy J ^b   Imada, Clyde T ^c  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

'Eua; Flora; Pacific Islands; Rain forest; Tonga; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES INVENTORY; VASCULAR PLANT;

TONGA, EUA ISLAND;

EID: 0030466466     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1996.10412694     Document Type: Article

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