Species richness and floristic relationships between mesas and their surroundings in southern African Nama Karoo

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-53

  Burke, Antje ^a   Esler, Karen J ^b   Pienaar, Eugene ^b   Barnard, Phoebe ^c  

^a EnviroScience   (Namibia)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Arid lands; Island biogeography; Namibia; Re colonization; South Africa; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FLORISTICS; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LATITUDE; MOUNTAIN; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

NAMA;

EID: 0037251635     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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