The vegetation of granite rock outcrops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the need for its protection

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Environmental Conservation

• Publication date

  1999-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0376892999000041
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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