Bryophyte diversity, microhabitat differentiation, and distribution of life forms in Costa Rican upper montane Quercus forest

Bryologist

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 334-348

  Holz, Ingo ^a   Gradstein, S Robbert ^a   Heinrichs, Jochen ^a   Kappelle, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0036743117     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(2002)105[0334:BDMDAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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