Ecological factors driving plant species diversity in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc and other central Aegean islands

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 173-186

  Kougioumoutzis, Konstantinos ^a   Tiniakou, Argyro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean archipelago; endemism; environmental diversity; geodiversity; human impact; island species area relationship; South Aegean Volcanic Arc; species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924727525     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.866989     Document Type: Article

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