Livelihood and Conservation Aspects of Non-wood Forest Product Collection in the Shaxi Valley, Southwest China

Economic Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-204

  Huber, Franz K ^a   Ineichen, Robert ^b   Yang, Yongping ^c   Weckerle, Caroline S ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Bai; ethnobotany; non timber forest products (NTFP); Shaxi; Southwest China; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77956170173     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-010-9126-z     Document Type: Article

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