Assessing forest products usage and local residents' perception of environmental changes in peri-urban and rural mangroves of Cameroon, Central Africa

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Nfotabong Atheull, Adolphe ^a,b,c   Din, Ndongo ^b   Essomè Koum, Léopold G ^b   Satyanarayana, Behara ^a,d,e   Koedam, Nico ^d   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; NYPA FRUTICANS; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ADULT; AGED; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; AVICENNIA; CAMEROON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PERCEPTION; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEA FOOD; TREE; WOOD;

ADULT; AGED; ARECACEAE; AVICENNIA; CAMEROON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ETHNOBOTANY; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEAFOOD; TREES; WOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82655170824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-7-41     Document Type: Article

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