Impacts of conventional logging and portable sawmill logging operations on tree diversity in east new britain, papua new guinea

Australian Forestry

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-31

  Lindemalm, Frida ^a,b   Rogers, Howard M ^a,c  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Natural Resources ^*  (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Australia)

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EID: 0041077067     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2001.10676157     Document Type: Article

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