Building the United States national vegetation classification

Annali di Botanica

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Franklin, S ^a   Faber Langendoen, D ^b   Jennings, M ^c   Keeler Wolf, T ^d   Loucks, O ^e   Peet, R ^f   Roberts, D ^g   McKerrow, A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b NatureServe   (United States)

^c Department of Geography ^*  (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Hierarchical; National; NVC; Standard; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913530718     PISSN: 03650812     EISSN: 22393129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4462/annbotrm-9261     Document Type: Review

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