Diversity of Medicinal and Food Plants as Non-timber Forest Products in Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve (China): Implications for Livelihood Improvement and Biodiversity Conservation

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 178-191

  Ghorbani, Abdolbaset ^a   Langenberger, Gerhard ^a   Liu, Jing Xin ^a   Wehner, Stefanie ^b   Sauerborn, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Natural resource use; NTFPs; rapid vulnerability assessment; sustainable harvest

Indexed keywords

PARIS POLYPHYLLA; PARIS POLYPHYLLA VAR. YUNNANENSIS;

EID: 84862785249     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9188-1     Document Type: Article

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