Environmental conservation in classical Greece

Journal of Biological Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2010, Pages 123-135

  Papanastasis, Vasilios P ^a   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^b   Papanastasis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate; Forestry; Hunting; Landscape; Livestock husbandry

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149246994     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 1790045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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