The dry forest vegetation communities of little Tobago Island, West Indies: Floristic affinities

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-228

  Oatham, Michael P ^a   Boodram, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Conservation status; Dry forest biome; Floristic affinities; Lesser Antilles; Neotropics; Tobago; Trinidad; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION STATUS; DRY FOREST; FLORISTICS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; TRANSITION ZONE; VEGETATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; SOUTH AMERICA; TOBAGO; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEZUELA;

EID: 38549138934     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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