Soybean Production and Conversion of Tropical Forest in the Brazilian Amazon: The Case of Vilhena, Rondônia

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Ambio

• Publication date

  2005-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1579/0044-7447-34.6.462PMID 16201218
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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