Botanical diversity at Savura, a lowland rain forest site along the PABITRA Gateway Transect, Viti Levu, Fiji

Pacific Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-191

  Keppel, Gunnar ^a   Navuso, Jone Cawani ^a   Naikatini, A ^a   Thomas, Nunia T ^a   Rounds, Isaac A ^a   Osborne, Tamara A ^a   Batinamu, Nemani ^b   Senivasa, Eliki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b Department of Forests   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

FIJI; MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VITI LEVU; WORLD;

CLUSIACEAE; CYATHEACEAE; FILICOPHYTA; MYRISTICA; MYRISTICACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 18444402787     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2005.0021     Document Type: Article

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