Losses of native plant species from Worcester, Massachusetts

Rhodora

Volumn 104, Issue 920, 2002, Pages 325-346

  Bertin, Robert I ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Flora; Habitat destruction; Orchids; Species loss; Worcester

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041305054     PISSN: 00354902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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