Botanical studies within the PABITRA Wet-Zone Transect, Viti Levu, Fiji

Pacific Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-174

  Keppel, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; TRANSECT;

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

EID: 18444416355     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2005.0020     Document Type: Article

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