Valuation of forests and plant species in indigenous territory and National Park Isiboro-Sécure, Bolivia

Economic Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-241

  Thomas, Evert ^a   Vandebroek, Ina ^b   van Damme, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

Author keywords

0.1 ha transects; Accessibility; Moje o; Quantitative ethnobotany; TIPNIS; Trinitario; Use value; Yuracar

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350704606     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-009-9084-5     Document Type: Article

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