Trading forests for yields in the Peruvian Amazon

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gibbs, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84859353416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/011007     Document Type: Review

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