Plant families as predictors of plant biodiversity in Mexico

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 871-876

  Villaseñor, José Luis ^a   Maeda, Pedro ^b   Rosell, Julieta A ^a   Ortiz, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Parques del Pedregal ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Asteraceae; Biodiversity; Fabaceae; Focal group; Indicators; Mexico; Plant species richness; Poaceae; Predictors; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION TYPE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ASTERACEAE; FABACEAE; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 35448951381     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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