Updating the classification system for the secondary forests of Singapore

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-21

  Yee, Alex Thiam Koon ^a   Chong, Kwek Yan ^a   Neo, Louise ^a   Tan, Hugh T W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Native plants; Plantations; Secondary forest; Singapore; Wasteland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978388143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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