fewer people may not mean more forest for Latin American forest frontiers

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 443-446

  Sloan, Sean ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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EID: 34547120189     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00288.x     Document Type: Note

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