Sustainable agroforestry potentials and climate change mitigation

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-63

  Oyebade, B A ^a   Aiyeloja, A A ^a   Ekeke, B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

^b RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Global climate change; Greenhouse effect; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955641902     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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