Assessing the Economic Value of Traditional Medicines from Tropical Rain Forests

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  1992-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/J.1523-1739.1992.610128.X
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