Use of ecological methods in ethnobotany: Diversity indices

Economic Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 280-289

  Begossi, Alpina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biodiversity; diversity indices; ethnobotany; island biogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030468795     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02907333     Document Type: Article

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