The region effect on mesoscale plant species richness between eastern Asia and eastern North America

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-136

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a   Qian, Hong ^b   White, Peter S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 7544221620     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03789.x     Document Type: Article

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