Epiphytes of tropical montane forests - Impact of deforestation and climate change

Tropical Mountain Forest: Patterns and Processes in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-65

  Gradstein, Stephan Robbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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