Visibility matters: Increasing knowledge of women's contributions to ecology

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 212-219

  Damschen, Ellen I ^a   Rosenfeld, Kristen M ^a   Wyer, Mary ^a   Murphy Medley, Deena ^a   Wentworth, Thomas R ^a   Haddad, Nick M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENDER DISPARITY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 18244377985     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0212:VMIKOW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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