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    Species-area curves based on releve data for the Cape Floristic Region

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    Authors
    Mucina, Ladislav
    Proches, S.
    Cowling, Richard
    Date
    2003
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Proches, S., Cowling, R.M. & Mucina, L. 2003. Species-area curves based on releve data for the Cape Floristic Region. South African Journal of Science 99: pp 474-476.
    Faculty
    School of Agriculture and Environment
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
    Department of Environmental Biology
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    This item may be available from Professor Ladislav Mucina

    Email: L.Mucina@curtin.edu.au

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10314
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    Abstract

    Relevé data were used to compare species–area curves for the western and eastern parts of the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). Observed differences related more often to vegetation heterogeneity than to the geographical position of the localities. However, when separating plant species according to their distribution ranges, CFR endemics contributed greatly to diversity values in the west. CFR non-endemics, on the other hand, boosted species richness in the east, many of them appearing as 'pseudorares', owing to the greater diversity of vegetation types, which include formations with marginal intrusion into the CFR.

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