Using Morphological, Molecular and Climatic Data to Delimitate Yews along the Hindu Kush-Himalaya and Adjacent Regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Poudel, Ram C ^a,b,c   Möller, Michael ^a,c   Gao, Lian Ming ^a   Ahrends, Antje ^c   Baral, Sushim R ^d   Liu, Jie ^a   Thomas, Philip ^c   Li, De Zhu ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Natl Herbarium and Plant Labs   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BHUTAN; CHINA; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYBRID ZONE; INDIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYANMAR; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXUS; TAXUS CONTORTA; TAXUS MEIREI; TAXUS WALLICHIANA; VIET NAM;

ASIA; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; TAXUS;

EID: 84867286650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046873     Document Type: Article

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