Grasslands and herbaceous fringes on inselbergs in Atlantic central Africa

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 565-597

  Parmentier, Ingrid ^a   Müller, Jonas V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cameroon; Endemism; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Inselberg vegetation; Insularity; Phytogeography; Syntaxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA SET; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLORISTICS; GRASSLAND; INSELBERG; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYNTAXONOMY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

BUBALUS;

EID: 33845678463     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2006/0036-0565     Document Type: Article

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