Optimal foraging, institutions and forest change: A case from Nepal

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 231-260

  Schweik, Charles M ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutions; Nepal; Optimal foraging; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (DGPS); FORAGING; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEPAL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SHOREA ROBUSTA;

EID: 0034084634     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006233402222     Document Type: Article

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