Establishing long-term biodiversity assessment and monitoring in northwest Yunnan, China: A growing need for baseline information

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 292-294

  Melick, David ^a   Yang, Xuefei ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Xu, Jianchu ^b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

EID: 33750697322     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/0276-4741(2006)26[292:ELBAAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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