Bridges and barriers to developing and conducting interdisciplinary graduate-student team research

Ecology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Morse, Wayde Cameron ^a,b   Nielsen Pincus, Max ^a   Force, Jo Ellen ^a   Wulfhorst, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Graduate education; Integration; Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship; Interdisciplinary; Sustainability; Team research; Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE); University of Idaho

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; BIODIVERSITY; HIGHER EDUCATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH PROGRAM; STUDENT;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41249095548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02082-120208     Document Type: Article

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