The History of Neotropical Vegetation: New Developments and Status

作者：Robyn Jeanette Burnham, Alan Graham · 发表于：Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden · 年份：1999 · DOI：10.2307/2666185 · 被引用次数：333 · 研究领域：Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies、Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics、Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean

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