Serious New Threat to Brazilian Forests

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-6

  Nazareno, Alison G ^a   Feres, Juliana M ^b   de Carvalho, Dulcineia ^c   Sebbenn, Alexandre M ^d   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^e   Laurance, William F ^f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^d São Paulo Forest Institute   (Brazil)

^e Heinz Center for Science Economics and the Environment   (United States)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; LETTER; TREE;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; TREES;

EID: 84856344898     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01798.x     Document Type: Letter

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