Home gardening for tropical biodiversity conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1641-1644

  Webb, Edward L ^a   Kabir, Md Enamul ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Life Science School   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HOME GARDEN; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 70450245334     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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