Using the useful: Characteristics of used palms in south-eastern Ecuador

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 495-506

  Byg, Anja ^a   Vormisto, Jaana ^a   Balslev, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arecaceae; Colonist; Plant abundance; Plant characteristics; Plant importance; Quantitative ethnobotany; Shuar

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; CULTURE; ETHNICITY; EVERGREEN TREE; MORPHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARECACEAE;

EID: 33750688174     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-006-9051-6     Document Type: Article

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