High conservation value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-27

  Edwards, David P ^a   Fisher, Brendan ^a   Wilcove, David S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural conversion; Connectivity; Deforestation; Green labeling; HCVF; Land use planning; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

ELAEIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84861929437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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