Biodiversity in China's mountains

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 347-352

  Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Zheng, Chengyang ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; DATABASE; ECOREGION; HABITAT QUALITY; HOT SPOT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT; VERTEBRATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748413479     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0347:BICM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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