Home garden coffee as a repository of epiphyte biodiversity in Ethiopia

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 524-528

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Nemomissa, Sileshi ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; COFFEE; EPIPHYTE; HOME GARDEN; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; REPOSITORY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VASCULAR PLANT;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 57449121586     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080001     Document Type: Article

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