Relationships between spatial environmental heterogeneity and plant species diversity on a limestone pavement

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 715-722

  Lundholm, Jeremy T ^a   Larson, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; PAVEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 0346401166     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2003.03604.x     Document Type: Article

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