Impacts of land-use change on sacred forests at the landscape scale

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 349-358

  Daye, Desalegn Desissa ^a   Healey, John R ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Deforestation; Fragmentation; Land cover; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922690732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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