Microrefugia, small scale ice age forest remnants

Systematics and Geography of Plants

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1073-1077

  Leal, Miguel E ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caesalpinioideae; Gabon; Ice age; Microrefugia; Pleistocene forest refuge theory; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

CAESALPINIOIDEAE;

EID: 0035784162     PISSN: 03039153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3668739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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