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Assessing the extent and causes of forest degradation in India: Where do we stand

2010-12-01

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In India, conservation of biodiversity goes hand in hand with human welfare, as millions of people live adjacent or within protected areas and depend upon forests products. The high density and biomass requirements of these households could result in the degradation of forests and loss of biodiversity. We assessed the collection of forest products among households in five sites in the Western and Eastern Ghats of...

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Literature Corpus work: d286c92a-9e94-5114-890c-7e3b60c28961
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.032

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