Fern adaptations to xeric environments

Fern Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 140-176

  Hietz, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511844898.006     Document Type: Chapter

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