The perils of payoff: Corruption as a threat to global biodiversity

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 399-401

  Laurance, William F ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRUPTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EID: 3342887183     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.06.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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