Beyond forest cover: Land use and biodiversity in rubber trail forests of the chico mendes extractive reserve

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Vadjunec, Jacqueline M ^a   Rocheleau, Dianne ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecological monitoring; Extractive reserves; Land use; Livelihood; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; CATTLE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; RUBBER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

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EID: 73849093279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03010-140229     Document Type: Article

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