Home Garden Agrobiodiversity Differentiates Along a Rural—Peri–Urban Gradient in Campeche, México

Economic Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 203-217

  Poot–Pool, Wilbert Santiago ^a   van der Wal, Hans ^a   Flores–Guido, Salvador ^b   Pat–Fernández, Juan Manuel ^a   Esparza–Olguín, Ligia ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

ethnobotany; introduced species; Maya; native species; Species richness; urbanization; Yucat n Peninsula

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944355885     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-015-9313-z     Document Type: Article

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