Herbarium collections and field data-based plant diversity maps for Burkina Faso

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 509-516

  Schmidt, Marco ^a   Kreft, Holger ^b   Thiombiano, Adjima ^c   Zizka, Georg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Collection data; Life forms; Plant diversity maps; Species distribution models; West Africa

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; MAPPING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CYPERACEAE; DIOSCOREACEAE; POACEAE; RUBIACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 28144459424     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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