Forest history in East Africa's eastern arc mountains: Biological science and the uses of history

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-313

  Conte, Christopher A ^a  

^a Utah State University in Logan   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biology; Conservation; Eastern Arc Mountains; Forest; History

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950956898     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.4.9     Document Type: Article

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