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Biogeography of the Lost World (Pantepui region, northeastern South America): Insights from bryophytes

  • 1. University of Liège, Institute of Botany, B22 Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium. E-mail: adesamore&@student.ulg.ac.be, Benjamin.Laenen@student.ulg.ac.be, a.vanderpoorten@ulg.ac.be
  • 2. Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: sgradst@gwdg.de Amphibian Evolution Lab, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
  • 3. Vertebrates Department (Herpetology), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: Philippe.Kok@naturalsciences.be

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Désamoré, Aurélie, Laenen, Alain Vanderpoorten Benjamin, Gradstein, S. Robbert, Kok, Philippe J. R. (2010): Biogeography of the Lost World (Pantepui region, northeastern South America): Insights from bryophytes. Phytotaxa 9: 254-265, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.9.1.14

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