Profiling a besieged flora: Endemic and threatened plants of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 575-589

  Trinder Smith, T H ^a   Cowling, R M ^a   Linder, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological profile; Cape Peninsula; Endemism; Fynbos; Rarity; Taxonomic profile; Threats

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342946122     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00137610     Document Type: Article

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