The Great Escarpment of southern Africa: a new frontier for biodiversity exploration

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The Great Escarpment of southern Africa: a new frontier for biodiversity exploration

The biodiversity of the 5,000 km-long Great Escarpment of southern Africa is currently poorly known, despite hosting half of the subcontinent’s centres of plant endemism and to have a rich endemic vertebrate fauna, particularly in the north-west and east. A country-based overview of endemism, data d...

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Main Authors:	Clark, V., Barker, N., Mucina, Ladislav
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Springer 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43708

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