Tropical rainforests as dynamic symbiospheres of life

Symbiosis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-36

  Zook, Douglas ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation biology; Northwest Amazon ecosystems; Symbiosis; Tiputini; Tropical rainforest ecology; Yasuni

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; LITERATURE REVIEW; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SYMBIOSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ECUADOR;

EID: 77955559311     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13199-010-0071-5     Document Type: Article

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