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Rare and Common Plants in Ecosystems, with Special Reference to the South-west Australian Flora

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A commonplace observation of overriding ecological significance is that organisms differ greatly in distribution and abundance. A few (e.g., Homo sapiens and Poa annua) are cosmopolitan and numerous, but most are limited to precise geographical regions, and some are extremely rare and highly localized. Explaining why this is so is a primary focus of biological science.

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Pate, J.S., Hopper, S.D. (1994). Rare and Common Plants in Ecosystems, with Special Reference to the South-west Australian Flora. In: Schulze, ED., Mooney, H.A. (eds) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Praktische Zahnmedizin Odonto-Stomatologie Pratique Practical Dental Medicine, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58001-7_14

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