Eroding knowledge: An ethnobotanical inventory in eastern Amazonia's logging frontier

Economic Botany

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-160

  Shanley, Patricia ^a   Rosa, Nelson A ^b  

^a Forest Products and People Programme   (Indonesia)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Capim; Conservation; Logging; Non timber forest products

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944378917     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058[0135:EKAEII]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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