Silvicultural options to enhance and use forest plantation biodiversity

Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 96-139

  Bauhus, Jürgen ^a   Schmerbeck, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849776417     Document Type: Chapter

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