Continental scale patterns of biodiversity: Can higher taxa accurately predict African plant distributions?

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-235

  La Ferla, Beverly ^a   Taplin, James ^a,b   Ockwell, David ^a,b   Lovett, Jon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

Author keywords

African flora; Range size rarity; Species richness; Sub Sahara; Surrogate measure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AFRICA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0036462885     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.138002225.x     Document Type: Article

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