Islands: Stability, diversity, conservation

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 477-493

  Cronk, Q C B ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation; climate change; endemic plants; invasive organisms; palaeoendemism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CONSERVATION; ENDEMIC PLANT; ISLAND; PALAEOENDEMISM; TREE FERN;

DICKSONIA; DICKSONIA ARBORESCENS; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 0030618326     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018372910025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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