Spatial and seasonal diversity of wild food plants in home gardens of northeast Thailand

Economic Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 99-113

  Cruz Garcia, Gisella S ^a,b,c   Struik, Paul C ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundance; Ethnobotany; Frequency of occurrence; Seasonality; Southeast Asia; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943365316     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-015-9309-8     Document Type: Article

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