Tropical Ecology

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3616-3624

  Beck, H ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal plant interactions; Anthropogenic impacts; Biogeography; Climate; Conservation; Diversity; Extinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862767809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00880-6     Document Type: Chapter

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