Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon: Assessment and Priority Actions for Conservation, Sustainable Use and Benefit Sharing
- ISBN-10
- 8574480932
- ISBN-13
- 9788574480930
- Category
- Nature / Ecology
- Pages
- 535
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Instituto Socioambiental
- Author
- João Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco
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