Disturbance pharmacopoeias: Medicine and myth from the humid tropics

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 868-888

  Voeks, Robert A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Human ecology; Medicinal plants; Pharmacopoeia; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

HUMID TROPICS; MEDICINAL PLANT; RAINFOREST;

EID: 14244249138     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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