Spray cliff communities of the chattooga basin

Castanea

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-240

  Zartman, Charles E ^a   Dan Pittillo, J ^a  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PLANT COMMUNITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0040294683     PISSN: 00087475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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