Biodiversity - The appreciation of different thought styles and values helps to clarify the term

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Mayer, Philipp ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Concept; Environmentalism; Natural history; Science; Values

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33646710590     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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