Up in the clouds: Is sustainable use of tropical montane cloud forests possible in Malaysia?

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-38

  Peh, Kelvin S H ^a,b   Soh, Malcolm C K ^c   Sodhi, Navjot S ^c   Laurance, William F ^d   Ong, Dylan Jefri ^e   Clements, Reuben ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ERE Consulting Group   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Southeast Asia tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751478470     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.1.8     Document Type: Article

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