Human adaptation to the changing economy and ecology on the estuarine floodplain of the Amazon estuary

Geographical Review of Japan, Series B

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-58

  Hiraoka, Mario ^a   Hida, Noboru ^b  

^a MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

a a (Euterpe oleracea); Agroforest; Amazon estuary; Disintensification; Swidden

Indexed keywords

EID: 6544293219     PISSN: 02896001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4157/grj1984b.71.45     Document Type: Article

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