Saving Slash-and-Burn to Save Biodiversity

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 550-552

  Padoch, Christine ^a   Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobiodiversity; Shifting cultivation; Swidden agriculture

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; POPULATION GROWTH; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 77956477363     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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