Tibetan sacred sites conserve old growth trees and cover in the eastern Himalayas

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Biodiversity and Conservation

• Publication date

  2007-01-31

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10531-005-4381-5
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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