Floristic diversity and composition of terra firme and seasonally inundated palm swamp forests in the Palma Real watershed in lower Madre de Dios, Peru

SIDA, Contributions to Botany

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 615-633

  Valverde, Fernando H Cornejo ^a   Janovec, John P ^b   Tobler, Mathias W ^b  

^a Botanical Research Institute of Texas Peru   (Peru)

^b BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARECACEAE; FABACEAE;

EID: 33750550259     PISSN: 00361488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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