Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests
- ISBN-10
- 0226470229
- ISBN-13
- 9780226470221
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 563
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- William F. Laurance, Carlos A. Peres
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