Is the spatial distribution of mankind's most basic economic traits determined by climate and soil alone?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Beck, Jan ^a   Sieber, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CLIMATE; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SOIL; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77956286174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010416     Document Type: Article

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