On the diversity of land plants

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 366-380

  Keddy, Paul ^a,b   Fraser, Lauchlan H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Experimentation; Species pool; Wetland plants

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033490483     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682531     Document Type: Article

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