Environmental controls on species composition along a (maquis) shrubland to forest gradient on ultramafics at Mont Do, New Caledonia

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 97, Issue 11-12, 2001, Pages 573-580

  Enright, N J ^a   Rigg, L ^b   Jaffre T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

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