Diversity of useful plants in the coffee forests of Ethiopia

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-70

  Senbeta, Feyera ^a   Woldemariam Gole, Tadesse ^b   Denich, Manfred ^c   Kellbessa, Ensermu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Environment and Coffee Forest Forum   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COFFEA ARABICA;

EID: 84884486173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15473465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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