Hypsographic demography: The distribution of human population by altitude

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 14009-14014

  Cohen, Joel E ^a   Small, Christopher ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ALTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0032564454     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.24.14009     Document Type: Article

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