The Roggeveldberge - Notes on a botanically hot area on a cold corner of the southern Great Escarpment, South Africa

South African Journal of Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-126

  Clark, V R ^a   Barker, N P ^a   Mucina, L ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Endemism; Floristics; Great Escarpment; Hantam Roggeveld Centre of Plant Endemism; Komsberg; Roggeveld

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD REGION; ENDEMISM; ESCARPMENT; FLORISTICS; MONTANE FOREST; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 78651478324     PISSN: 02546299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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