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Popularity
of Opuntia aurea over time
[Plots of numbers of papers mentioning Opuntia aurea (filled column
histogram and left hand axis scale) and line of best fit, 1926 to 2006 (complete
line, with equation and % variation accounted for, in box on the left hand
side); Plots of a proportional micro index, derived from numbers of papers
mentioning Opuntia aurea as a proportion (scaled by multiplying by one million)
of the total number of papers published for that year (broken line frequency
polygon and right hand scale) and line of best fit, 1926 to 2006 (broken line,
with equation and % variation accounted for, in broken line box on the right
hand side)]
Total
Mentions (Biological
Abstracts/Biosis Previews):
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Parfitt BD (1997) Opuntia pinkavae
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United States Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation
Service http://plants.usda.gov/; DJ Mabberley (1997)
The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press (Second Edition); JH Wiersma and B
Leon (1999) World Economic Plants, CRC Press; RJ Hnatiuk (1990) Census of
Australian Vascular Plants, Australian Government Publishing Service.
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