The chaparral vegetation in Mexico under nonmediterranean climate: The convergence and Madrean-Tethyan hypotheses reconsidered

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1398-1408

  Valiente Banuet, Alfonso ^a   Flores Hernández, Noé ^a   Verdú, Miguel ^b   Dávila, Patricia ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Convergence; Evergreen; Mexical; Mexico; Sclerophyll; Tehuacan Valley; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CHAPARRAL; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; PLANT COMMUNITY;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032228823     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2446398     Document Type: Article

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