A digital base map for studying the Neotropical flora

Taxon

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 469-477

  Bletter, Nat ^a   Janovec, John ^b   Brosi, Berry ^c   Daly, Douglas C ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acre; Amazonia; Americas; Biogeography; Geographic information systems; GIS; Mapping; Neotropics

Indexed keywords

FLORA; GIS; MAPPING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION;

EID: 3042623644     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4135624     Document Type: Article

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