Diversity and endemism in tropical montane forests - From patterns to processes

Tropical Mountain Forest: Patterns and Processes in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-50

  Kessler, Michael ^a   Kluge, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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