Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1284-1292

  Yang, Wenjing ^a,b,c   Ma, Keping ^a   Kreft, Holger ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity database; Botanist effect; Collecting effort; Geographical sampling bias; Specimen collection; Vascular plants; Wallacean shortfall

Indexed keywords

GABAZA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84908482202     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12225     Document Type: Article

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