Revisiting the deciduous forests of Eastern North America

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 341-352

  Dyer, James M ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; E. Lucy Braun; Eastern deciduous forest; Forest regions; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645786962     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[341:RTDFOE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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