OCBIL theory: Towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

Plant and Soil

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-86

  Hopper, Stephen D ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Conservation; Dispersability; Endemism; Evolution; Gondwanan Heritage; Greater Cape; Heterozygosity; Infertile soils; James Effect; Mineral nutrition; Old landscapes; Pantepui; Rare species; Salinity; Southwest Australia; Speciation; Ultimate Self; YODFEL

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954191996     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0068-0     Document Type: Review

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