Setting the stage

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-13

  Scatena, F N ^a   Bruijnzeel, L A ^b   Bubb, P ^c   Das, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

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EID: 84933508474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511778384.003     Document Type: Chapter

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