Vascular plant species count in a wet forest in the Choco area on the Pacific coast of Colombia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1563-1575

  Galeano, Gloria ^a   Suárez, Stella ^b   Balslev, Henrik ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b University of Aaarhus ^*  (Colombia)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Choco; Colombia; Growth forms; Species richness; Wet forest

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FOREST; SPECIES INVENTORY; VASCULAR PLANT;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 0032463117     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008802624275     Document Type: Article

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