Forest Restoration in Abandoned Agricultural Land: a Case Study from East Africa

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  1999-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98229.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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