Exploring patterns of plant diversity in china’s mountains

Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 39-47

  Fang, Jingyun ^a   Wang, Xiangping ^a   Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Shen, Zehao ^a   Zheng, Chengyang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 85056025738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420083705     Document Type: Chapter

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