Destruction and management of Mount Kenya's forests

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 314-317

  Bussmann, Rainer W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SETTLEMENT IMPACT; TIMBER HARVESTING;

KENYA, MOUNT KENYA;

BUBALUS; CANNABIS; DRYOBALANOPS; ELEPHANT; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS PROCERA; OCOTEA; OCOTEA USAMBARENSIS;

EID: 0029669686     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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13. First submitted 14 February 1995. Accepted for publication 14 June 1995.