Deficiency in African plant distribution data - Missing pieces of the puzzle

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-368

  Kuper W ^a   Sommer, J H ^a   Lovett, J C ^b   Barthlott, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic model; Biodiversity; GARP; Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC); Natural history collections; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; MAPPING; MONTANE FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646483848     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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