Biodiversity patterns of vascular plant species in mountain vegetation in the Faroe Islands

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-223

  Fosaa, Anna Maria ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Faroese Museum of Natural History   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

Islands; Mountains; Shannon Wiener index; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 2342652872     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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