Products of a managed landscape: Non-timber forest products in the parklands of the Bassila region, Benin

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 279-289

  Schreckenberg, Kathrin ^a  

^a OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benin; Non timber forest products; Oil palm; Parkia biglobosa; Parklands; Savanna; Vitellaria paradoxa; West Africa

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT;

BENIN;

EID: 0033494855     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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