Woody plants in Kenya: Expanding the Higher-Taxon Approach

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-314

  Prinzing, Andreas ^a,b   Klotz, Stefan ^a   Stadler, Jutta ^a   Brandl, Roland ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Biogeographic expert knowledge; Scale; SLOSS; Species richness; Species turn over; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CONSERVATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODY PLANT;

KENYA;

EID: 0037399826     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00242-2     Document Type: Article

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