Re: The Ecology of Palms
Anthony R. Brach (brach@oeb.harvard.edu)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:44:59 -0500
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>Dear Anthony
> I am currently working on a paper on the ecology of palms at high
>latitudes and altitudes (ie. altitudinal and latitudinal limits of palms).
>This work is for a chapter of the book 'The Ecology of Palms' (or
>something). As you would expect altitudinal and latitudinal data is not
>available for all palm species (or at least not easy to come by) and is
>often patchy when found. Until now the largest gap in my knowledge has been
>China - where many species are distributed both relatively high latitudes
>and altitudes. I just found the online Flora Of China, and am of course
>delighted to find such information. My question is: is there any way of
>distinguishing 'natural' records from records of garden, introduced,
>naturalised etc. plants in your data? This would be very handy.
> Thanks in advance
>Sincerely
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>Ben Miller
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