South Asian evergreen forests: Some thoughts towards biogeographic reevaluation

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-180

  Ashton, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Between and within region comparisons; Biogeography; Evergreen forests; Extinctions; South Asia; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVERGREEN FOREST;

ASIA;

EID: 0031390520     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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