Monitoring efforts yield new plant records for Mona Island, Puerto Rico, a tropical dry forest wonderland

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 150-152

  Meléndez Ackerman, Elvia J ^a,b   Aragón, Susan ^a,b   Morales Vargas, Mariely ^a,b   Sustache, José ^c   Axelrod, Franklin S ^b   Fuentes, Chamary ^a,b   Ackerman, James D ^b   García, Miguel ^d   Fernández, Denny S ^e  

^a CREST Center for Tropical Applied Ecology and Conservation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c Herbarium   (United States)

^d Bureau of Fisheries and Wildlife   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Caribbean; Flora; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; MONA ISLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PUERTO RICO; WORLD;

ACANTHOPHORA; BORAGINACEAE; BROUGHTONIA DOMINGENSIS; DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FLUEGGEA ACIDOTON; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NEPTUNIA PLENA; OLACACEAE; ORCHIDACEAE; PIRIQUETA RACEMOSA; POACEAE; ROCHEFORTIA ACANTHOPHORA; SCHOEPFIA SCHREBERI; TRACHEOPHYTA; TURNERACEAE;

EID: 18744389141     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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