Perspectives on the Global Disparity in Ecological Science

BioScience

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 147-155

  Livingston, George ^a   Waring, Bonnie ^b   Pacheco, Luis F ^c   Buchori, Damayanti ^d   Jiang, Yuexin ^f   Gilbert, Lawrence ^e   Jha, Shalene ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^d BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

editorial boards; environmental crisis; human development index; scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960104252     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv175     Document Type: Article

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