Assessing fern diversity: Relative species richness and its environmental correlates in Uganda

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1387-1398

  Lwanga, Jeremiah S ^a,b   Balmford, Andrew ^b,c   Badaza, Rose ^a  

^a Forest Department   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Environmental predictors; Ferns; Relative species richness; Uganda

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FERN; NATURE CONSERVATION;

UGANDA;

EID: 0032449736     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008865518378     Document Type: Article

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