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| Plant diversity in Mediterranean-climate regions RM Cowling, PW Rundel, BB Lamont, MK Arroyo, M Arianoutsou Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11 (9), 362-366, 1996 | 1242 | 1996 |
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| Vegetation of southern Africa RM Cowling, DM Richardson, SM Pierce Cambridge University Press, 2004 | 444* | 2004 |
| Fusion or failure? The future of conservation biology A Balmford, RM Cowling Conservation biology 20 (3), 692-695, 2006 | 439 | 2006 |
| Predicting the landscape‐scale distribution of alien plants and their threat to plant diversity SI Higgins, DM Richardson, RM Cowling, TH Trinder‐Smith Conservation biology 13 (2), 303-313, 1999 | 430 | 1999 |
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