Securing a future for china's wild plant resources

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 720-725

  Sang, Weiguo ^a   Ma, Keping ^a   Axmacher, Jan C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic threats; overexploitation; priority conflict; protected area management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052736347     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.9.11     Document Type: Article

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