Plant species diversity of Adriatic islands: An introductory survey

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-445

  Nikolić, Toni ^a   Antonić, Oleg ^b   Alegro, Antun L ^a   Dobrović, Iva ^a   Bogdanović, Sandro ^a   Liber, Zlatko ^a   Rešetnik, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic basin; Arrhenius function; Endemism; Floristic diversity; Species richness; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849126368     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500802410769     Document Type: Article

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