Education and research opportunities for traditional ecological knowledge
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1540-9295
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[w12:earoft]2.0.co;2