The taxonomic distribution of rare and common species among families in the vascular plant flora of Fennoscandia

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 177-186

  Grytnes, John Arvid ^a   Birks, H J B ^a,b   Peglar, Sylvia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commonness; Permutation tests; Plant traits; Rarity

Indexed keywords

PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES RARITY; TAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT;

EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033491478     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.1999.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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