Predicting rare plant occurrence in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 229-237

  Boetsch, John R ^a,c   Van Manen, Frank K ^b   Clark, Joseph D ^b  

^a Great Smoky Mountains National Park   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Olympic National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Habitat modeling; Landscape model; Predicting plant species occurrence; Rare species

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

UNITED STATES;

CARDAMINE; CARDAMINE CLEMATITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0041312411     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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