Microvegetation on the top of Mt. Roraima, Venezuela

Fottea

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-186

  Kaštovský, Jan ^a   Fučíková, Karolina ^b   Hauer, Tomáš ^a,c   Bohunická, Markéta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Algae; Cyanobacteria; Endemism; New species; Roraima; Table Mountain; Tepuis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959746822     PISSN: 18025439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/fot.2011.017     Document Type: Article

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