Patterns of species richness for vascular plants in China's nature reserves

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 364-372

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Energy; Habitat heterogeneity; Nature reserves; Plant richness; Taxonomic groups; Vegetation region; Water

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EARTH; ENERGY BUDGET; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; NATURE RESERVE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT; WATER DEMAND; WATER STRESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745684925     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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