Understanding Interrelationships Among Predictors (Age, Gender, and Origin) of Local Ecological Knowledge 1;Estudio de las interrelaciones entre predictores del conocimiento ecológico local: Estudio de un caso en la cuenca del Caura, Venezuela

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-164

  Souto, Tamia ^a,b   Ticktin, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Local ecological knowledge; mestizo; multiple regression analysis; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862192282     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9194-3     Document Type: Article

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