The history of vegetation classification and mapping in California

Terrestrial Vegetation of California

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-42

  Keeler Wolf, Todd ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

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