Rainforest composition and histories of human disturbance in Solomon Islands

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Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 346-352

  Bayliss Smith, Tim ^a   Hviding, Edvard ^b   Whitmore, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PREHISTORIC; RAINFOREST;

SOLOMON ISLANDS;

EID: 0042286463     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.5.346     Document Type: Review

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