Useful Species Richness, Proportion of Exotic Species, and Market Orientation on Amazonian Dark Earths and Oxisols1

Economic Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Kawa, Nicholas C ^a,b   Rodrigues, Daniel ^c   Clement, Charles R ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

agrobiodiversity; Amazonian Dark Earth; Brazilian Amazonia; Madeira River; smallholder agriculture; terra preta do ndio

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958094401     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9158-z     Document Type: Article

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