Area, altitude and aquatic plant diversity

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 411-420

  Jones, J Iwan ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Maberly, Stephen C ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0141797645     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03554.x     Document Type: Article

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