Preliminary inventory and classification of indigenous afromontane forests on the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa

BMC Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Lötter, Mervyn C ^a   Beck, Hans T ^b  

^a MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; RAIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 5444261802     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-4-9     Document Type: Article

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