Tropical rain forest evolution: Palms as a model group

BMC Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Couvreur, Thomas L P ^a,b   Baker, William J ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARECACEAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; REVIEW; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ARECACEAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84876332469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-48     Document Type: Article

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